To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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