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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “No longer ago than this morning, I was old. I remember looking in the glass, and wondering at my own gray hair, and the wrinkles, many and deep, right across my brow, and the furrows down my cheeks, and the prodigious trampling of crow’s feet about my temples! It was too soon! I could not bear it! Age had no right to come! I had not lived!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It must suffice, that, though my form be absent, my inner man goes constantly to church, while many, whose bodily presence fills the accustomed seats, have left their souls at home.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “They are unavoidable at this moment, standing, as you do, on the outer verge of your long seclusion, and peopling the world with ugly shapes, which you will soon find to be as unreal as the giants and ogres of a child’s story-book. I find nothing so singular in life, as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it. So it will be with what you think so terrible.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The moment when a man’s head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “They are practised politicians, every man of them, and skilled to adjust those preliminary measures, which steal from the people, without its knowledge, the power of choosing its own rulers.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness;.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Then, it is true, the prosperity of human nature to tell the very worst of itself, when embodied in the person of another, would constrain them to whisper the black scandal of bygone years.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Yes! – these were her realities – all else had vanished!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “A trait si-a iubit si asta face si acum! In trandafirul asta de-o frumusete perfecta nu mai e nici o petala nedeschisa, nici o picatura de roua pe care n-au vazut-o razele soarelui.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “They stopped on the bridge to look into the swift eddying flow of the yellow Tiber, a mud puddle in strenuous motion;.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Intellectual activity is incompatible with any large amount of bodily exercise.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “You, Sir, of all men whom I have known, are he whose body is the closest conjoined, and imbued, and identified, so to speak, with the spirit whereof it is the instrument.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “There is something so massive, stable, and almost irresistibly imposing in the exterior presentment of established rank and great possessions that their very existence seems to give them a right to exist; at least, so excellent a counterfeit of right, that few poor and humble men have moral force enough to question it, even in their secret minds.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “She might, in one of her phases, have been a prophetess.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “When men seek only to be trampled upon, it were a pity to deny them a favor so easily granted – and so well deserved!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or – and the outward semblance is the same – crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “There he dwelt among poverty-stricken wretches, sinners, and forlorn good people, Irish, and whomsoever else were neediest.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Little Pearl, Hester’s young child, fulminates with unconscious aggression in the wild tantrums that, Hawthorne says, reflect the illicit desire with which she was conceived.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The minister felt for the child’s other hand, and took it. The moment that he did so, there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life than his own, pouring like a torrent into his heart, and hurrying through all his veins, as if the mother and the child were communicating their vital warmth to his half-torpid system. The three formed an electric chain.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Thus the world assumed another and a better aspect from the hour that the poet blessed it with his happy eyes. The Creator had bestowed him, as the last best touch to his own handiwork. Creation was not finished till the poet came to interpret, and so complete it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “At last, after creeping as it were, for such a length of time along the utmost verge of the opaque puddle of obscurity, they had taken that downright plunge, which, sooner or later, is the destiny of all families, whether princely or plebian.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “But, to tell you my private mind, Signor Giovanni, he should receive little credit for such instances of success – they being probably the work of chance – but should be held strictly accountable for his failures, which may justly be considered his own work.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Lost as my own soul is, I would still do what I may die other human souls!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “To this last apothegm poor Hepzibah responded with a sigh so deep and heavy that it almost rustled Uncle Venner quite away, like a withered leaf, – as he was, – before an autumnal gale. Recovering himself, however, he bent forward, and, with a good deal of feeling in his ancient visage, beckoned her nearer to him.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It would break her dear little heart; and I’d rather break my own!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Here was the iron link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break. Like all other ties, it brought along with it its obligations.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Tell him he has murdered me! Tell him that I’ll haunt him!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “But I never considered it as other than a transitory life.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “But the brook, in the course of its little lifetime among the forest-trees, had gone through so solemn an experience that it could not help talking about it, and seemed to have nothing else to say.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “This outward mutability indicated, and did not more than fairly express, the various properties of her inner life.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It is odd enough that the kind of labor which falls to the lot of women is just that which chiefly distinguishes artificial life – the life of degenerated mortals – from the life of Paradise. Eve had no dinner-pot, and no clothes to mend, and no washing-day.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The preposterous obstinacy of these honest people in persisting to groan and stumble along the difficult pathway rather than take advantage of modern improvements, excited great mirth among our wiser brotherhood.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Heaven would show mercy,” rejoined Hester, “hadst thou but the strength to take advantage of it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The scarlet letter had not done its office.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “If it be a sign of mourning,” replied Mr. Hooper, “I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world’s improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime;.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Therefore, if we built splendid castles, and pictured beautiful scenes, among the fervid coals of the hearth around which we were clustering, and if all went to rack with the crumbling embers, and have never since arisen out of the ashes, let us take to ourselves no shame. In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world’s improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit, but, by some irregularity in the process of conjuration, has failed to win the master-word that should control this new and incomprehensible intelligence.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The girl waved her hand to Hepzibah and Clifford, and went up the street; a religion in herself, warm, simple, true, with a substance that could walk on earth, and a spirit that was capable of heaven.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “And wise Uncle Venner, passing slowly from the ruinous porch, seemed to hear a strain of music, and fancied that sweet Alice Pyncheon-after witnessing these deeds, this bygone woe and this present happiness, of her kindred mortals-had given one farewell touch of a spirit’s joy upon her harpsichord, as she floated heavenward from the House of the Seven Gables.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Burlacul se simte-ntotdeauna tras pe sfoara cand stie, sau banuieste, ca vreuna din femeile pe care le cunoaste s-a deconspirat singura.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The sympathies of these two men instructed them with a profounder sense than either could have attained alone. Their minds accorded into one strain, and made delightful music which neither of them could have claimed as all his own, nor distinguished his own share from the other’s. They led one another, as it were, into a high pavilion of their thoughts, so remote, and hitherto so dim, that they had never entered it before, and so beautiful that they desired to be there always.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “A little parallelogram of sky was all that she had hitherto known of nature, so that she felt the awfulness that really exists in its limitless extent.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Nevertheless, in spite of all these professional grudges, artists are conscious of a social warmth from each other’s presence and contiguity. They shiver at the remembrance of their lonely studios in the unsympathizing cities of their native land. For the sake of such brotherhood as they can find, more than for any good that they get from galleries, they linger year after year in Italy, while their originality dies out of them, or is polished away as a barbarism.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Imagination, by casting certain circumstances judicially into the shade, may see much to admire.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The devoted sister had solemn thoughts of thrumming on its chords for Clifford’s benefit, and accompanying the performance with her voice. Poor Clifford! Poor Hepzibah! Poor harpsichord!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “There was a sense within her, – too ill-defined to be made a thought, but weighing heavily on her mind, – that her whole orb of life, both before and after, was connected with this spot, as with the one plant that gave it unity.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Mother and daughter stood together in the same circle of seclusion from human society;.”
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