Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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