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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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