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Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, was a seminal figure in American literature, known for his profound explorations of morality and human nature. His early life was marked by the shadow of his ancestor, a judge during the Salem witch trials, which influenced his distinctive themes of guilt and redemption. Hawthorne’s masterpieces, including "The Scarlet Letter" and "The House of the Seven Gables," cemented his legacy as a keen observer of the human psyche, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of American fiction.
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"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"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"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"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
"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
"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."
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"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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
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"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"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."
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