Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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