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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 37 quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (/ˈhɔːˌθɔrn/; born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. Nathaniel later added a "w" to make his name "Hawthorne" in order to hide this... Read full biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne → 1 2 3 Ctrl → Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. 0 Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. 0 Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows... → 0 The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the... → 0 Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. 0 We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest. 0 Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.... → 0 Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. 0 No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be... → 0 The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their... → 0 Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were... → 0 Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows... → 0 Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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