The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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