Journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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

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Power of words Power of literature Literature Writing

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Personal journal

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English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Journal entry. 18 May 1848.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Friendship

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Quoted in Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, by Julian Hawthorne. Vol. I, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893.