If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEFamilies are always rising and falling in America.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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