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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Hands Heart Man Passion Win Woman
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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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
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.
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Face Family Man Period True
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Calm Distance Right True View
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
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
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
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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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
Moonlight is sculpture.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Art Light Moon One Liner
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

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