The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEGenerosity is the flower of justice.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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