This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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