“See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“It is a good lesson–though it may often be a hard one–for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world’s dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your griefs may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“A woman’s chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Sunlight is painting.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Moonlight is sculpture.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Generosity is the flower of justice.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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