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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMen of cold passions have quick eyes.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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