Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEJust as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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