There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEFamilies are always rising and falling in America.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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 the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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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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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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