The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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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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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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