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 HAWTHORNEDream strange things and make them look like truth.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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