"But there is a fatality, a feeling so……" — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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203 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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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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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