Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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