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Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.... Nathaniel Hawthorne {view}
- 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.... Nathaniel Hawthorne {view}
- 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.... Nathaniel Hawthorne {view}
- Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream... Nathaniel Hawthorne {view}