“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
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In our nature, however, there is a
“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
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Religion and art spring from the same
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Category: religion
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Religion and art spring from the same
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Category: art
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Happiness in this world, when it comes,
“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
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Words – so innocent and powerless as
“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
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Every individual has a place to fill
“Every 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
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Category: respect
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The founders of a new colony, whatever
“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
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued,
“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.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry,
“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
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Category: poetry
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