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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNECaresses, 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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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 thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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