Families are always rising and falling in America.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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 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.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Sunlight is painting.
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