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 HAWTHORNEHappiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Sunlight is painting.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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