A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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