There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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