Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born...

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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go...

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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

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

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man...

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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going...

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might...

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Sunlight is painting.

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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the...

#Nathaniel Hawthorne