There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEUgliness without tact is horrible.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Sunlight is painting.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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