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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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Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
— Aristotle
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
— Plautus
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
— Plautus
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Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when…
— Humphry Davy
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You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.
— Charles Dickens
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
— Gail Godwin
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What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions…
— Claud Cockburn
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We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But…
— Edmund Burke
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There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor…
— Jules Verne
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