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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Needs
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
Man
May
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness
May
Pursuit
World
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Talk
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Respect
World
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
Evil
Words
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
Guilt
World
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Conscience
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death
Dream
May
Waking
Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Time
Flies
Shadow
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Men
Impulses
Limits
Man
World
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Family
First
Friends
Literature
Writing
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thought
Deep
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness
Virtue
Prison
Project
Utopia
Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Painting