Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDeath should take me while I am in the mood.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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