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> [Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/romance-and-poetry-ivy-lichens-and-wallflowers-need-ruin-to-make-them/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/a-pure-hand-needs-no-glove-to-cover-it/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-marble-keeps-merely-a-cold-and-sad-memory-of-a-man-who-would-else/)

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> [Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/nervous-and-excitable-persons-need-to-talk-a-great-deal-by-way-of/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/just-as-there-comes-a-warm-sunbeam-into-every-cottage-window-so-comes-2/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-we-need-for-our-happiness-is-often-close-at-hand-if-we-knew-but/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/my-wife-is-in-the-strictest-sense-my-sole-companion-and-i-need-no/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/we-men-of-study-whose-heads-are-in-our-books-have-need-to-be/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-a-man-sitting-all-alone-cannot-dream-strange-things-and-make-them/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/when-a-writer-calls-his-work-a-romance-it-need-hardly-be-observed/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/there-is-so-much-wretchedness-in-the-world-that-we-may-safely-take/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/great-men-need-to-be-lifted-upon-the-shoulders-of-the-whole-world-in/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/there-is-great-incongruity-in-this-idea-of-monuments-since-those-to/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/that-pit-of-blackness-that-lies-beneath-us-everywhere-the-firmest/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/why-are-poets-so-apt-to-choose-their-mates-not-for-any-similarity-of/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/america-is-now-wholly-given-over-to-a-d-d-mob-of-scribbling-women-and/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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## Other authors on Needs

## More by Nathaniel Hawthorne

> [“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/there-was-something-of-the-women-molded-into-the-great-stalwart-frame/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-trees-reflected-in-the-river-they-are-unconscious-of-a-spiritual/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-dismaying-thing-about-the-classic-totalitarian-mind-is-that-any/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/my-heart-was-a-habitation-large-enough-for-many-guests-but-lonely-and/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/wherever-there-is-a-heart-and-an-intellect-the-diseases-of-the/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-founders-of-a-new-colony-whatever-utopia-of-human-virtue-and/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [Generosity is the flower of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/generosity-is-the-flower-of-justice/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/he-seemed-to-be-in-quest-for-mental-food-not-heart-sustenance/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/unfathomable-to-mere-mortals-is-the-lore-of-fiends/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/possibly-he-was-in-a-state-of-second-growth-and-recovery-and-was/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [“What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster, which, after all,—though we can point to every feature of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-wonder-then-should-we-be-frightened-by-the-aspect-of-a-monster/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/as-the-architecture-of-a-country-always-follows-the-earliest/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-we-call-real-estate-the-solid-ground-to-build-a-house-on-is-the/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [“The bookworm of great libraries.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-bookworm-of-great-libraries/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

> [There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/there-are-many-things-in-this-world-that-a-child-must-not-ask-about/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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