The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETo do nothing is the way to be nothing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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