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All Quotes by author - Nathaniel Hawthorne
" Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. "
Brother
Accuracy
Dishonesty
" A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world. "
Hero
Heroic
World
" All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. "
Life
Daily
Brave
" A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. "
Pure
Brainy
Hand
" A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon. "
Warm
Better
Good
" A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. "
Woman
Chastity
Onion
" 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. "
Relationship
Life
Tree
" Easy reading is damn hard writing. "
Easy
Reading
Writing
" Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. "
World
Important
Place
" Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. "
Never
Happiness
Find
" 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. "
Inspirational
Happiness
Butterfly
" 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. "
Never
Present
Torture
" 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. "
Care
Go
Health
" Life is made up of marble and mud. "
Mud
Life
Made
" Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. "
Love
Romantic
World
" Moonlight is sculpture. "
Sculpture
Nature
Moonlight
" Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. "
Monuments
Mountains
Nature
" My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered. "
Meet
Who
Suicide
" Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. "
Nobody
About
Conscience
" 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. "
Look
Great
Find
" 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. "
Finally
True
Wear
" 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. "
Enjoy
Never
Thought
" Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. "
Friendship
Worst
Nature
" Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. "
Same
Spring
Art
" Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. "
Inspire
Qualities
Love
" Sunlight is painting. "
Painting
Sunlight
Nature
" 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. "
Virtue
Happiness
New
" 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. "
Doubt
Courage
Wisdom
" 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. "
Family
Writing
Literature
" The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. "
Limits
World
Within
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