Nathaniel Hawthorne

(16 votes)   Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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(15 votes)   Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

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(332 votes)   From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(302 votes)   I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(237 votes)   Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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(164 votes)   Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(151 votes)   Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(150 votes)   See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(148 votes)   Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(147 votes)   It is a good lesson --though it may often be a hard one --for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(131 votes)   Generosity is the flower of justice.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(131 votes)   Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(122 votes)   Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(117 votes)   Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(100 votes)   This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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