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The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the…

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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…
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with…
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such…
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may…
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,…
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as…
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating…
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,…
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than…
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.

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The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians;… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The… — William Cowper

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