Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENo man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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