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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Build Life One Liner
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Face Family Man Period True
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
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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Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Inspirational Mindset Power Thinking Yourself
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree World
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Man Measurement Wisdom
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Easy People World
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice

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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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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