Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDeath should take me while I am in the mood.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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 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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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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