Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

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…I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Moonlight is sculpture.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Of all the events which constitute a person’s biography, thre is scarcely one to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Life is made up of marble and mud.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne