Nathaniel Hawthorne

Novelist

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Quietly forceful, original, and sensitive. Tend to stick to things until they are done. Extremely intuitive about people, and concerned for their feelings. Well-developed value systems which they strictly adhere to. Well-respected for their perserverence in doing the right thing. Likely to be individualistic, rather than leading or following.

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Biography

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer.
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning.

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Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

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

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

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.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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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