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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDream strange things and make them look like truth.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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