What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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