Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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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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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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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.
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