The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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