What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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