When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible … - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

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The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

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I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

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