A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

4 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.— filed under Hypocrisy
No fountain is so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom.— filed under Influence
His words had power because they accorded with his thoughts; and his thoughts had reality and depth because they harmonized with the life he had always lived. It was not mere breath that this preacher uttered; they were the words of life, because a life of good deeds and holy love was melted into them. Pearls, pure and rich, had been dissolved into the precious draught.— filed under Preaching
Earth has one angel less, and heaven one more since yesterday. Already, kneeling at the throne, she has received her welcome, and is resting on the bosom of her Saviour.— filed under Death
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