Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELife is made up of marble and mud.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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