Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis above all: be true, be true, be true.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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