Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEUgliness without tact is horrible.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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