What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETrusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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