Sunlight is painting.
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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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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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE