And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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.
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Sunlight is painting.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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