Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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 must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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