The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond 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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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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 calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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The 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.
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Sunlight is painting.
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