Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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