Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEArticulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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