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This above all: be true, be true, be true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Eyes Fingers Philosophy Reality See Spiritual Touch True
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
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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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Horrible One Liner Ugly
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Darkness Heart Oneself
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

One Liner True
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Myself Wait World
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Kind Man Spirit
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appearance Letter Truth
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Commitment Entertainment Fortune Ideas Murder Person Suicide
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Body Spiritual Symptom

This above all: be true, be true, be true.

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