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With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.


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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhoo...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born of God’s care f...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of c...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratif...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one tha...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Shall we never, never get rid of this Past? cried he, keeping up the earnest tone of his preceding c...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it le...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the trues...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them,...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revel...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, a...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self !
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Word's so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and e...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE What we call real estate, the solid ground to build a house on, is the broad foundation on which nea...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Shame, Depair, Soltude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones,- and they had made her str...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach
MARK HAWTHORNE It allowed public-land managers to prohibit anything at all if it might harm some resource.
BRIAN HAWTHORNE I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self.
MAX HAWTHORNE Do anything, save to lie down and die!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE They have accepted everything we've asked them to do and are playing a high level of volleyball.
EMILY HAWTHORNE At this point, she's our most improved player. She is still building confidence. Since she is about ...
EMILY HAWTHORNE Those two have pushed themselves and pushed the team to play at a higher level.
EMILY HAWTHORNE I think most of it comes from each person knowing their role on the team.
EMILY HAWTHORNE A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qual...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Somebody stopped because of the smoke and, of course, another vehicle hit them and another vehicle h...
DANIEL HAWTHORNE So we're hoping we'll knock it down.
DANIEL HAWTHORNE The weather reports say we will get some rain. We are just hoping that we do.
DANIEL HAWTHORNE Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE These accusations change your life. As teachers, we have to do everything in our power not to put ou...
GLENDA HAWTHORNE