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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Darkness Heart Oneself
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Description God Need Reality See Word
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Calm Distance Right True View
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Book Combination Evil Goodness Hands Innocence Power Stand Word
Sunlight is painting.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Art Light One Liner Painting Sun
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Accuracy Brother Honesty
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Experience People Time

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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