To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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