The 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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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