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 HAWTHORNEMoonlight is sculpture.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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