The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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 world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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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 will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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