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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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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
— Henry David Thoreau
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As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may…
— Thomas Paine
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he…
— Samuel Johnson
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Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.
— Harvey Mackay
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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
— John Milton
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The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but…
— Edith Wharton
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
— Thomas Paine
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
— Vance Havner
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