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.
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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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