Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past. - 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. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ugliness without tact is horrible. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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