We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Sunlight is painting.
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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 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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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