If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETime flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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