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"32 Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 4 July 1804. Died: 19 May 1864 | Novelist | Writer |

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.

Become Combine Dictionary Evil
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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.

After Alike Chiefly Endures
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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.

Another Any Bewildered Considerable
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Chooses Every Fill He
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Ancient Confines Ease Happy
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Damn Easy Easy Reading Hard
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Accuracy Brother Dishonesty Honesty
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Art Close Economics Kin
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

About Almost Any Anything
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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.
Always Aroused Born Create
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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.

Above Beyond Creator Days
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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.

Affections Another Die Expressions
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Chastity Coats Consists Like
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Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life Made Marble Mud
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Moonlight is sculpture.
Art Moonlight Nature Sculpture
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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.

Cash Ends Family First
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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.

Altogether Beyond Committing Entertain
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Sunlight is painting.
Literature Painting Sunlight Personification
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

About Adding Any Conscience
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Cover Glove Hand Needs
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

After Congratulate Death Dream
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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.

Affections Battle Brave Contests
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Behind Flies Leaves Over
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Earth Monuments Mountains Undecaying
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Cannot Hero Heroic Unless
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Apt Inspire Love Qualities
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Best Friend He Intimate
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Dark Heart Inexorable Jailer
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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.

Article Better Dip Fresh
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Broad Build Call Estate
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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.

Alight Always Beyond Butterfly
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Always Forest Happens Must
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes & Sayings