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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 Quotes)
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
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 (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
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 (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
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 (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face? (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
It is very singular how the fact of a man’s death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb’s bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale! (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
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 (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
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 (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self! (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream (Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes)