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 HAWTHORNENo 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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