I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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