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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Sunlight is painting.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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