Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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