This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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.
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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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