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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes

American Novelist, Writer July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864

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It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin."
...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin. Nathaniel Hawthorne
They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendor, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me."
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a..."
The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments. Nathaniel Hawthorne
But then the elf-child sighed, and gave up her sport; because it grieved her to have done harm to a little being that was as wild as the sea-breeze, or as wild as Pearl herself. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not..."
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred! Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. Nathaniel Hawthorne
But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart. Nathaniel Hawthorne
...the holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward. Nathaniel Hawthorne
To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into sentence: Be True! Be True! Be True! Show freely to the world if not the worst, yet some trait whereby the worst can be inferred. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the..."
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! Nathaniel Hawthorne
The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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