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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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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.
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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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