Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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