Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAccuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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