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 HAWTHORNEA pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover 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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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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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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