Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

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• I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a…
• I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that…
• Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us…
• In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to…
• Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or…
• I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to…
• Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles…
• See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore…
• It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
• The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
• There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
• Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
• I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
• Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth…
• He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at…
• There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now…
• A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the…
• Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
• Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
• ...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some…

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