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Own Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
- Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
- 'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an…
- 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…
- Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never…
- What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
- No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.
- The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.
- Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be…
- To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the…
- Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not…
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