Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESunlight is painting.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of 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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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