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 HAWTHORNESalt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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