Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESelfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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