| 37 Famous Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”
Accuracy Quotes |
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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”
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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 one is true.”
Mankind Quotes |
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“Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.”
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“Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream”
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“Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.”
Genius Quotes Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Procession of Life
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“Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.”
Crime Quotes Source: Marble Faun (vol. I, ch. XXIII)
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“Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only
what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which
supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial
flowers--to the daily life of others.”
Circumstance Quotes Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Old Manse
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“When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both
sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most
at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact
with it.”
Contention Quotes Source: The Marble Faun (vol. II, ch. XXII)
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“And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger
about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is
now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown
cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that
are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.”
Apples Quotes Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Old Manse
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“Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.”
Morality Quotes Source: Our Old Home--Lichfield and Uttoxeter
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“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.”
Disease Quotes Source: The Scarlet Letter (ch. X)
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“Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by
the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne,”
Sickness Quotes Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Old Manse--The Procession of Life
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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.”
Guilt Quotes Source: The House of Seven Gables--The Flight of Two Owls
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“"Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well,"
answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her,
"we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."”
Eating Quotes Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The New Adam and Eve
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“One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the
applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the
colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely
away.”
Painting Quotes Source: Marble Faun (bk. II, ch. XII)
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“So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the
thirst of his spirit.”
Singing Quotes Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Birthmark
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“It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through
all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender
and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were
kept warm in his mother's hand.”
Feet Quotes Source: The Marble Faun (vol. I, ch. XXI)
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“In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and
full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment
of execution.”
Resolution Quotes Source: Twice-Told Tales--Fancy's Show Box
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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.”
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“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”
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“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?”
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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 true.”
Honesty Quotes |
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“Moonlight is sculpture.”
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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.”
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