If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEShe had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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 calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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