Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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