American - Novelist | July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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