Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Sunlight is painting.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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