"My heart was a habitation large enough for……" — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream."
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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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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer…
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite…
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Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He…
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A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a…
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
— Unknown Author
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Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred…
— Kelly Miller
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their…
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