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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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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and…
— Georg Brandes
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One must be frank to be relevant.
— Corazon Aquino
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does…
— Milan Kundera
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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.
— Mark Twain
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls…
— Lucian
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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great…
— Natalia Ginzburg
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You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean…
— Robert E. Lee
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In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
— C.S. Lewis
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I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting…
— Ivan Goncharov
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A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
— Morris L. Ernst
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Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper,…
— Sivananda
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