Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEvery individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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