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All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him onward, and that a supernatural power had obstructed his retreat.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Lo! there ye stand, my children, " said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad, with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream! Now are ye undeceived! Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness.Nathaniel Hawthorne