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 HAWTHORNEMankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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