Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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