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
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It was one of those momentswhich sometimes occur only at the interval of yearswhen a mans moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his minds eye. Not improbably he had never before viewed himself as he did now.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne