Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEager 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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