# Quote — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun

> Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.

- Author: [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne.md)
- Book: [The Marble Faun](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-marble-faun.md)
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> We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the Holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment, good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

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> What a sweet reverence is that, when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal, and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.

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> It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.

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