Ugliness without tact is horrible.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
-
-
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
No 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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Families are always rising and falling in America.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE