We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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