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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things…
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For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own…
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I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends…
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There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.
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We are most blessed when we see ourselves as we are seen by [the Savior] and know ourselves as we are known…
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I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.…
— Walter Lippmann
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When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend,…
— Michael Ondaatje
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All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving…
— Charlotte Bronte
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He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the…
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