Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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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.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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