3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne 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 has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne 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 doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one’s family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you’ve scowled upon.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
