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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appearance Life Lose Myself
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appearance Letter Truth
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
Families are always rising and falling in America.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Calm Distance Right True View
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Frame Heart Intellectual Mad
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Horrible One Liner Ugly
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Build Life One Liner
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Kind Man Spirit
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

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