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Moment Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.
- We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
- Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with…
- Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a…
- There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of…
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