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Us Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us…
- In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to…
- I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to…
- Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth…
- Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!
- Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be…
- The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
- Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
- We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not…
- We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
- Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless…
- 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…
- Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
- No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as…
- In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us…
- 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…
- Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong