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.
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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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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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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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