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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dreams Strange Truth
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Face Family Man Period True
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Fight Resolution Wrong
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Myself Wait World
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

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

Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
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
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Hands Heart Man Passion Win Woman
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
Families are always rising and falling in America.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise

What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

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