Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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