The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. Nathaniel Hawthorne ancientconfineease Change image and share on social
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 combinedictionaryevil Change image and share on social
Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne lifemakemarble Change image and share on social
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. Nathaniel Hawthorne bewilderconsiderableface Change image and share on social
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. Nathaniel Hawthorne badfriendintimate Change image and share on social
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Nathaniel Hawthorne accuracybrotherdishonesty Change image and share on social
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest. Nathaniel Hawthorne forestmarketplace Change image and share on social
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. Nathaniel Hawthorne doubtfoolgreat share on social
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. Nathaniel Hawthorne congratulatedeathdream Change image and share on social
