"Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them."
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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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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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I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in…
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Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by…
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life…
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A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of…
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The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and…
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Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.
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Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.
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For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel,…
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the…
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Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was…
— Ernest Hemingway
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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they…
— Alice Morse Earle
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Reason reasons that no greats are bettered, In an earthen womb than her spirit mattered, Among crystal syllables of the…
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