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Nathaniel Hawthorne has 207 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with…
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such…
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may…
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Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,…
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as…
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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 nerve, vibrating…
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,…
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It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than…
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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong,…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man…
— Charlotte Bunch
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On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.
— Wes Fesler
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(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any…
— Samuel Clarke
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Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
— Thomas McGuane
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He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not…
— George MacDonald
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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour…
— Edward Dowden
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When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss
— Chrissie Hynde
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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss:…
— Victor Hugo
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