Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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