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Nathaniel Hawthorne Found 40 items. Pages: 1
 (756 votes) 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.Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)
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(185 votes) Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.Nathaniel HawthorneRate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
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(154 votes) 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 HawthorneRate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
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(154 votes) 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.Nathaniel HawthorneRate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
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(148 votes) Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
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(145 votes) No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
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(145 votes) It is a good lesson --though it may often be a hard one --for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
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(145 votes) See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
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(134 votes) In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
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