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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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