Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Biography: Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his novels and short stories explorin... more Biography: Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his novels and short stories exploring themes of sin and guilt in 19th-century America. Born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, his notable works include "The Scarlet Letter" and "The House of the Seven Gables." Hawthorne's writing reflects his Puritan ancestry and the moral complexities of human nature. less

"There is no devil in the world, and no devil in nature, except that which man creates.""The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.""Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.""Families are always rising and falling in America.""What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!""Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.""Moonlight is sculpture""Sunlight is painting""Life is made up of marble and mud""The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool""The past is never dead It’s not even past""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 the true""A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world""We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep""She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom""Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.""A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.""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 how to combine them.""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."

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