The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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