Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETrusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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