The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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