Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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