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Other Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that…
- The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the…
- 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.
- Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never…
- What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
- 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…
- Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which…
- She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where…
- It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost…
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