Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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