Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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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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I 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.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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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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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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