"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments." — Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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203 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne has 203 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you…
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable…
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will…
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry…
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it…
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great…
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more…
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are…
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
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 raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and… — Roger Bannister
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done… — Edward Abbey
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at… — Joe Biden
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to… — Andrea Bocelli
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. — Dale Carnegie
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward… — Winston Churchill
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors… — Maya Angelou
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit… — Yvon Chouinard
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like… — Yvon Chouinard
I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart… — Edwin Way Teale
I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo. — Unknown Author

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