To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELove, 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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 man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic 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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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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