This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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