We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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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.
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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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