Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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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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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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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 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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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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