Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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