The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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