And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEReligion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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