Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotations

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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Writing]

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	more quotations on [Writing]

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Marriage]

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [People]

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Gardens]

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Gardens]

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Integrity]

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Happiness]

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Dreams]

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.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Property]

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Community]

A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Money]

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	more quotations on [Adversity]

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Self]

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Passion]

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 Hawthorne	more quotations on [Passion]

Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Goals]

The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Past] [History]

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne	more quotations on [Hate]

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