The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEGenerosity is the flower of justice.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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