Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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