There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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