The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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