Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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