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1 " But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity. "
― Nathaniel Hawthorne , Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
2 " They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life. "
3 " and yet the intimation of a view of her character opposite to his own, gave instantaneous distinctness to a thousand dim suspicions, which now grinned at him like so many demons. "
4 " Imagination, by casting certain circumstances judicially into the shade, may see much to admire "
5 " Oh, how stubbornly does love,—or even that cunning semblance of love which flourishes in the imagination, but strikes no depth of root into the heart,—how stubbornly does it hold its faith until the moment "