Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETo do nothing is the way to be nothing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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