Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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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.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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