The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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