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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Description God Need Reality See Word
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Environment Hero World
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Deep Hands Pure
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Calm Distance Right True View
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Song Taste Voice World
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dreams Moments Ourselves Sleep Wake Up
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Frame Heart Intellectual Mad
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Inspirational Mindset Power Thinking Yourself

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