Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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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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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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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