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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Man Measurement Wisdom
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appearance Life Lose Myself
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Inspirational Love Quality Selfishness
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Gratitude Hands Happiness Need Philosophy Satisfaction Seek
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Calm Distance Right True View
Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Build Life One Liner
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

God Meaning Talk Voice
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Myself Wait World
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Choice Important Place Self Love Worth

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