Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Quotes

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Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.

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A perfect pond-lily is the most satisfactory of flowers.

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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

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Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

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Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.

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All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

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Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

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No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.

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What is the voice of song, when the world lacks the ear of taste?

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The hand of one person may express more than the face of another.

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There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

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She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

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But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

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"Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own."

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The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

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Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

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New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

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The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.

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Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

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She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

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The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

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The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.

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It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.

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No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

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A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

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The world, that gray-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

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Amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

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