All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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 is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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 greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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