Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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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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