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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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