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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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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the…
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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
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It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other,…
— Henry Miller
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In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
— Stephen Fry
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You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
— Aravind Adiga
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This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify…
— Michael Morpurgo
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Francis: Judging by your breath, you must have been buzzing around a dung heap all day!
— A Bugs Life
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