There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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