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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Depending upon one another’s hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness, as vast, as intricate, and shadowy as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “There is no other fear so horrible and unhumanizing as that which makes man dread to breathe heaven’s vital air lest it be poison, or to grasp the hand of a brother or friend lest the grip of the pestilence should clutch him.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The witnesses of Hester Prynne’s disgrace had not yet passed beyond their simplicity. They were stern enough to look upon her death, had that been the sentence, without a murmur at its severity, but had none of the heartlessness of another social state, which would find only a theme for jest in an exhibition like the present.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers – stern and wild ones – and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself.” “Men sometimes are so,” said her husband.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “In the little chaos of Pearl’s character there might be seen emerging-and could have been from the very first-the steadfast principles of an unflinching courage-an uncontrollable will-a sturdy pride which might be disciplined into self-respect-and a bitter scorn of many things, which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “With Heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the Devil!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those with whom she came in contact, implied, and often expressed, that she was banished, and as much alone as if she inhabited another sphere, or communicated with the common nature by other organs and senses than the rest of human kind.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Woman, I could wellnigh pity thee!” said Roger Chillingworth, unable to restrain a thrill of admiration too; for there was a quality almost majestic in the despair which she expressed. “Thou hadst great elements. Peradventure, hadst thou met earlier with a better love than mine, this evil had not been. I pity thee, for the good that has been wasted in thy nature!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman’s beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “My wife is – in the strictest sense – my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The latter is perhaps the truest theory. She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation. We shall see whether Hester Prynne were ever afterwards so touched and so transfigured.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Yesterday I 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. The present is burdened too much with the past.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow, while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner’s purpose to read the human soul.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person’s expense!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “But it was a remarkable attribute of this garb, and indeed, of the child’s whole appearance, that it irresistibly and inevitably reminded the beholder of the token which Hester Prynne was doomed to wear upon her bosom. It was the scarlet letter in another form: the scarlet letter endowed with life!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “But she named the infant “Pearl,” as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother’s only treasure!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It is singular, however, how long a time often passes before words embody things; and with what security two persons, who choose to avoid a certain subject, may approach its very verge, and retire without disturbing it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “She perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Insincerity in a man’s own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Neither the front nor the back entrance of the Custom-House opens on the road to Paradise.”
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