Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEcho is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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 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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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