There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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