There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.


Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne... In Two Volumes... (ed. 1868)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.