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 HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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