"What is the voice of song when the……" — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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203 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne has 203 quotes on this site.
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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you…
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable…
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will…
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry…
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Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it…
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
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Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great…
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
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It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more…
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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are…
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There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
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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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More Ear Quotes
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one of 1,176 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
— Mario Batali
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
— Thomas Beecham
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down…
— Mary J. Blige
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To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
— William Jennings Bryan
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it…
— Maria Callas
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