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 HAWTHORNEWhat other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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