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«Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, which cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet and artist has actually expressed»
«Easy reading is damned hard writing.»
«The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sunand a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leaftytongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.It has kept its boughs unshattered, and its full complement of leaves, and the whole in perfect verdure,except a single branch, that, by the earlier change with which the elm-tree sometimes prophesies the autumn,had been transmuted to bright gold.»
«And what shall we live on while I am writing it?»
«Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform their great deeds.»
«Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
article, beefsteak, Dr., Dr. Johnson, Dr, Dr Johnson, Johnson
«Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.»
«I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; /neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American union, bleeding, bleeding heart, Native American, oneness, quivering, quivers, the union
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