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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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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
— Wilfred Owen
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
— Aeschylus
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred de Vigny
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No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
— Tom DeMarco
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People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of…
— Shelby Foote
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Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a…
— John F. Kerry
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on…
— John Tillotson
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There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common…
— Hippocrates
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