Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty. Nathaniel Hawthorne More Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne More Quotes From Nathaniel Hawthorne Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. Nathaniel Hawthorne gold death facts Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday. Nathaniel Hawthorne angel yesterday heaven If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom. Nathaniel Hawthorne scarlet bosoms letters How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world! Nathaniel Hawthorne rome cities time By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot. Nathaniel Hawthorne guilt heart blood Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death. Nathaniel Hawthorne events death world There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one. Nathaniel Hawthorne men memories ideas It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now. Nathaniel Hawthorne eye men years Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain! Nathaniel Hawthorne wish happiness looks The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable. Nathaniel Hawthorne decrepit grey world A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress. Nathaniel Hawthorne thrones humble running We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity. Nathaniel Hawthorne real dream heart America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000. Nathaniel Hawthorne should-have book america It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Nathaniel Hawthorne appreciation character death As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood. Nathaniel Hawthorne brotherhood feelings men A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. Nathaniel Hawthorne worship may men The present is burthened too much with the past. Nathaniel Hawthorne too-much past Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning. Nathaniel Hawthorne bees honey sometimes We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west. Nathaniel Hawthorne heart wind thinking London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London. Nathaniel Hawthorne london home men
