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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes | Quotes said by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #1

    ... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #2

    ...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #3

    ...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #4

    ...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #5

    A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #6

    A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #7

    A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #8

    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.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #9

    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 Quote #10

    all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #11

    All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #12

    All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #13

    America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #14

    America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #15

    An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world!

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #16

    And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no ruin. He had caught a far other butterfly than this. When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #17

    And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still lower depth came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated water.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #18

    Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #19

    As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #20

    Be it sin or no, I hate the man!

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #21

    But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #22

    Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #23

    Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #24

    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 Quote #25

    Death should take me while I am in the mood.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #26

    Do anything, save to lie down and die!

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #27

    Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

    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 Quote #30

    Externally, the jollity of aged men has much in common with the mirth of children; the intellect, any more than a deep sense of humor, has little to do with the matter; it is, with both, a gleam that plays upon the surface, and imparts a sunny and cheery aspect alike to the green branch, and gray, mouldering trunk.

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