Best Nathaniel Hawthorne Sayings
- As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. All
- The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view Calmer
- The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become. Attraction
- Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land… Butterfly
- A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. Bewilderment
- Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be… Annihilate
- Dream strange things and make them look like truth. Dream
- When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed… Bosoms
- Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. Arranged
- The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. Absurdity
- Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly… Apple
- Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and… Age
- Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen. Airy
- The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Agreeable
- Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. Deal
- Let the black flower blossom as it may! Black
- Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day. All
- He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that… Been
- The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the… All
- We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. Dream
- The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain… Absurd
- We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right. All
- Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never… Accomplishment
- I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to… Along
- The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought… Burial
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