The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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