A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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.
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