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Quotations By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Affection

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Death

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death.

Progress

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Voice

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