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Book Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
- A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may…
- It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends…
- We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk…
- The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if…
- Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book…
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