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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dreams Moments Ourselves Sleep Wake Up
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.
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Face Family Man Period True
Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Build Life One Liner
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
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Deep Hate Love Observation Subject Wisdom
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appearance Life Lose Myself
Families are always rising and falling in America.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Fashion Happiness Love Rest
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Description God Need Reality See Word
Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Flower Generosity Justice One Liner
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
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World

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