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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Eyes Fingers Philosophy Reality See Spiritual Touch True
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

Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Calm Distance Right True View
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Deep Hands Pure
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Experience People Time
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
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Build Life One Liner
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

One Liner True
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Accuracy Brother Honesty
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Easy People World
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Myself Wait World
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Ordinary Poison Quiet Woman

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