I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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 dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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