Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELet men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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