Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Quotes

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.

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.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.

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.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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