Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.

Famous Quotes / Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past."

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About	Affair	Ages	British
Building	Burnt	Burthened	Crushes
Disappeared	Dust	Egyptian	Elgin
Exceedingly	Fine	Forgive	Frieze
Generations	Granite	Hall	Heart
Heaven	Heavy	Hewn	Into
Lime	Marbles	Material	Mummies
Museum	Once	Parthenon	Past
Person	Present	Produced	Quite
Relics	Squared	Statues	Stones
Successive	Them	Thousand	Tiresome
Turned	Twelve	Visited	Wandered
Weary	Wishing	Years	Yesterday

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Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past. - Nathaniel Hawthorne