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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Written by 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.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Written by 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.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moonlight is sculpture.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sunlight is painting.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Written by 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.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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