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Nathaniel Hawthorne — Portrait after a picture by Mathew Benjamin Brady (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American author

1804–1864

23 quotes, most often on Love, Truth & Lies and Happiness.

I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.
Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (4 June 1837)
- Life & Death
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised 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.
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IIn context
- Justice
- Life & Death

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