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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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