Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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