There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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