Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEShe had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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.
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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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