Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes & Sayings
37 most famous Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American novelist who passed away on 19 May, 1864.
“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.”
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.”
“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 attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
“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.”
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