Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased novelist born on Jul 4, 1804). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 37 we have for him.
“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.”
“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.”
“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.”
“Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.”
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
“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.”
“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.”
“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”
“Sunlight is painting.”
“Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.”
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