If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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