Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAll 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Sunlight is painting.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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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.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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 sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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