Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWords – 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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