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Sunlight is painting.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 HAWTHORNE

Description God Need Reality See Word
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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Book Combination Evil Goodness Hands Innocence Power Stand Word
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Horrible One Liner Ugly
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Face Family Man Period True
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
Generosity is the flower of justice.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Flower Generosity Justice One Liner
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Commitment Entertainment Fortune Ideas Murder Person Suicide
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Song Taste Voice World
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Body Spiritual Symptom
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself

Sunlight is painting.

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