Long Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

11 Long quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Hawthorne’s eleven short quotes on “long” probe the moral weight of extended trials, the lingering shadows of past choices, and how patience reveals hidden truths. A modest collection that hints at his dark, contemplative storytelling style.

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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

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

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Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

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Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind,…

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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be…

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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…

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A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim…

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It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from…

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Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of…

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The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm…

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I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense…

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“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”

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“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”

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“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,…

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