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Human Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
- He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at…
- Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
- The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical…
- It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred,…
- Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the…
- But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to…
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