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It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1804
Born: July 4
Died: 1864
Died: May 18
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Salem
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hathorne
Monsieur de l'Aubépine
N. H.
Multitudes
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Symbols
Forms
Clothed
Spiritual
Manifested
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Multitude
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Catholicism
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