If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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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.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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