All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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