This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEasy reading is damn hard writing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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 greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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