Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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 dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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