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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOur 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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