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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunlight is painting.
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Art Light One Liner Painting Sun
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
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Horrible One Liner Ugly
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Build Life One Liner
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Face Family Man Period True
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Appearance Life Lose Myself
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

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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.
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Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

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