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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNECaresses, 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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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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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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