Happiness is like a butterfly.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEReligion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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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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