Families are always rising and falling in America.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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