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“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,'
The youth whispers, 'I can.”
― Emerson: Poems
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,'
The youth whispers, 'I can.”
― Emerson: Poems
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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H’s 2024 Year in Books
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