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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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 trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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