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.
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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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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