Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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A 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.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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