To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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