Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

• Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

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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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• A woman’s chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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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.

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• A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

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• Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

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• Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born of Gods care for every need.

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  Topics in God

• I hate track! I hate running! Running around and around and around and around, and all you get is this little ribbon. That’s not for me.

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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.

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• You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

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• It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

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• Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

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• But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Topics in Inspirational

• 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

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (64)

Birth:	4th July, 1804
Death:	19th May, 1864
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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