70+ Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

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.
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Beyond Creation Day Enjoyment Heart Immortal Love Thinking
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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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Inspirational Mindset Power Thinking Yourself
Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Deep Hate Love Observation Subject Wisdom
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
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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Description God Need Reality See Word
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Face Family Man Period True
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Horrible One Liner Ugly
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Easy Effort Hard Hard Work One Liner Poet Reading Writing
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Build Life One Liner
Sunlight is painting.
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Art Light One Liner Painting Sun
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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Experience People Time
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Hands Heart Man Passion Win Woman
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World
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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Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
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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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Courage Happiness Philosophy Possession Release Wisdom Yourself
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit
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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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window

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