What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAt 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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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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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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