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" You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
You
Almost
Anything
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" Life is made up of marble and mud. "
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" 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. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Meet
Who
Suicide
" We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Talk
Forest
Happens
" 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. "
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True
Wear
" Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. "
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Friendship
Worst
Nature
" 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. "
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Go
Health
" 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. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love
Romantic
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. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life
Daily
Brave
" Moonlight is sculpture. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sculpture
Nature
Moonlight
" Easy reading is damn hard writing. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Easy
Reading
Writing
" 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. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Doubt
Courage
Wisdom
" 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
Relationship
Life
Tree
" Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Behind
Shadow
Time
" 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
Family
Writing
Literature
" Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Monuments
Mountains
Nature
" Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody
About
Conscience
" 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
Guilt
Foundation
World
" Sunlight is painting. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Painting
Sunlight
Nature
" The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Limits
World
Within
" A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pure
Brainy
Hand
" 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. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Never
Happiness
Find
" 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
Good And Evil
Evil
" Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brother
Accuracy
Dishonesty
" What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dark
Self
Own
" 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
Never
Present
Torture
" Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Same
Spring
Art
" Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Inspire
Qualities
Love
" We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dream
Sometimes
Moment
" 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
Enjoy
Never
Thought