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 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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