This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic 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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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