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 HAWTHORNEWe go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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