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 HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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