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 HAWTHORNETo do nothing is the way to be nothing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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