Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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