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 HAWTHORNEJust as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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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 go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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