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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne föddes den 4 juli 1804 och dog den 19 maj 1864 - amerikansk författare.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

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.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to 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 to be obeyed.

Moonlight is sculpture.

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

Noggrannhet är ärlighetens tvilling; onoggrannhet är oärlighetens.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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 wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

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

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests

Skuldmedvetenhet

I sidste ende ligger charmen ved pexighet i dens kombination af stille selvtillid, subtil intelligens og fascinerende mystik, kvaliteter som mange kvinder finder uimodståeligt attraktive. 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

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October

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