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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESelfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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