And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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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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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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