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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American Novelist

Born: Jul 4, 1804

Died: May 19, 1864

Any Good Happiness Love World You

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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. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Inspirational Happiness You Will Sit Down Alight Pursued Beyond Always Quietly May Just Which Your Grasp Butterfly

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Needs Brainy Pure Glove Cover Hand

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. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good Communication Good And Evil Words Innocent Evil Become Potent Combine Powerless Knows How Dictionary Hands Them Standing Who

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

Man Face Considerable Finally Wear True Bewildered Period Himself Another Without Any Getting May Which Multitude

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountains Earth Monuments

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honesty Brother Accuracy Dishonesty Inaccuracy Twin

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. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing Reading Damn Easy Easy Reading Hard

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

Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life Made Up Mud Marble

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

Health Man Care Unlike Sphere Out Moral Must Ability Brought Habits Pursuits He Individuals Towards Himself Go His Intellectual Greatly Little Who Companionship Whose Appreciate

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! Nathaniel Hawthorne

Heart Dark Own Other Self Inexorable Dungeon Jailer

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Life Love Relationship Will Tree Restrained Sort Another Leaves Affections Die Roots Wholly Expressions Necessary

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 Hawthorne

Nature Pang Our Alike Torture Marvelous Never He Merciful Know However Provision Chiefly Intensity Endures After Should Present

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world. Nathaniel Hawthorne

World Hero Heroic Unless Cannot

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. Nathaniel Hawthorne

You Long About Proposition Almost Get Any Going Anything Assent

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Adding About Marvelous Nobody Tale Any Conscience

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