Truth Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

15 Truth quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s take on truth is woven through his moral storytelling. Across fifteen concise notes, his Puritan‑informed perspective offers a thoughtful, sometimes stark, view of honesty.

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...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom...

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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

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Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

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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…

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“What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a…

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“It is but for a moment, comparatively, that anything looks strange or startling -- a truth that has the bitter and the…

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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as…

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Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must…

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Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters…

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A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work…

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“When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its…

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He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a…

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“Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into sentence: Be True! Be…

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“There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by…

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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

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“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!”

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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest…

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Generosity is the flower of justice.

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“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”

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“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”

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“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,…

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“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…

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