If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis above all: be true, be true, be true.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Sunlight is painting.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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