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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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