Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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