There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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