More from Nathaniel Hawthorne

  1. What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
  2. I do detest all offices, -- all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. And I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wit…
  3. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.
  4. 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 wh…
  5. Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
  6. 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…
  7. Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist ha…
  8. Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are …

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