There 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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELove, 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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 trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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