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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 heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is…
— William S. Burroughs
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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so…
— John Milton
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Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.
— Unknown Author
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
— Bertolt Brecht
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All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat,…
— Charles Ives
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The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the…
— Kató Lomb
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Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
— Henry David Thoreau
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No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that…
— Saadi
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
— John Keats
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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.
— Honore de Balzac
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Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial…
— Bill Vaughan
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