Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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