A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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