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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Inspirational Love Quality Selfishness
Moonlight is sculpture.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Art Light Moon One Liner
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit
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
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Divine Holy Pure Salt White
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself
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
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Creation Day Enjoyment Heart Immortal Love Thinking
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Death Funny Mood Myself
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
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
Generosity is the flower of justice.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Flower Generosity Justice One Liner

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.

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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.

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