"A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and……" — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul."
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203 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne has 203 quotes on this site.
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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you…
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable…
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will…
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry…
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Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it…
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
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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…
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
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It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more…
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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are…
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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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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is…
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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