This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETrusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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 must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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