Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEArticulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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