There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETo do nothing is the way to be nothing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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.
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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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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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