All 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
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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