"Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that,……" — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?"
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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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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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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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I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
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I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never…
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
— Dorothy Gilman
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice…
— Anthony Trollope
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One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my…
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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most…
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Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your…
— Robert Breault
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of…
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