What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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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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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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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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