Generosity is the flower of justice.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEvery individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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 thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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It 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.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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