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Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Activity category:
To do nothing is the way to be nothing. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Aging category:
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Appreciation category:
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. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Art category:
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Belief category:
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Change category:
- The Blithedale Romance...
No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Deception category:
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Doubt category:
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)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Dreams category:
We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Expression category:
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. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Friendship category:
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may light upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Happiness category:
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)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Immortality category:
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)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Importance category:
very 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)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Life category:
Life is made up of marble and mud. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Light category:
Sunlight is painting. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Limitations category:
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer is as inexorable as one's self! (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Love category:
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)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Nature category:
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Opposites category:
- The Scarlet Letter...
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Reality category:
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Recognition category:
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Sculpture category:
Moonlight is sculpture. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Silence category:
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Suffering category:
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)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Time category:
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Truth category:
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Words category:
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)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - From the Writing category:
Easy reading is damn hard writing. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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