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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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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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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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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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