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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Category: Adversity Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Category: Community Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
Category: Gardens Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.
Category: Gardens Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.
Category: Goals Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Category: Happiness Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
Category: History Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Source: The House of Seven Gables
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Category: Integrity Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Moonlight is sculpture.
Category: Light Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
Category: Marriage Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money.
Category: Money Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
Category: Passion Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Source: The Scarlet Letter
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But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
Category: Passion Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Source: The Scarlet Letter
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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.
Category: People Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.
Category: Property Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self.
Category: Self Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Category: Writing Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Category: Writing Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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