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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father’s cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother, too, Pearl’s errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Ever afterwards so touched, and so transfigured.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The daguerreotypist once whispered her that these marks betokened the oddities of the Pyncheon family, and that the chicken itself was a symbol of the life of the old house, embodying its interpretation, likewise, although an unintelligible one, as such clews generally are. It was a feathered riddle; a mystery hatched out of an egg, and just as mysterious as if the egg had been addle!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It is a very genuine admiration, that with which persons too shy or too awkward to take a due part in the bustling world regard the real actors in life’s stirring scenes; so genuine, in fact, that the former are usually fain to make it palatable to their self-love, by assuming that these active and forcible qualities are incompatible with others, which they chose to deem higher and more important.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “How often is it the case that, when impossibilities have come to pass and dreams have condensed their misty substance into tangible realities, we find ourselves calm, and evenly coldly self-possessed, amid circumstances which it would have been a delirium of joy or agony to anticipate!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “I had neglected to provide myself with books, and as we crept along at the dull rate of four miles per hour, I soon felt the foul fiend Ennui coming upon me.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It is the surest test of genuine love, that it brings back our early simplicity to the worldliest of us.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “His was the profession at that era in which intellectual ability displayed itself far more than in political life; for – leaving a higher motive out of the question it offered inducements powerful enough in the almost worshipping respect of the community, to win the most aspiring ambition into its service. Even political power – as in the case of Increase Mather – was within the grasp of a successful priest.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “A man – poet, prophet, or whatever be may be – readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Oh Hilda, what a treasure of sweet faith and pure imagination you hide under that little straw hat!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “I do detest all offices – all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “She was patient, – a martyr, indeed, – but she forbore to pray for her enemies; lest, in spite of her forgiving aspirations, the words of the blessing should stubbornly twist themselves into a curse.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October. The sunshine is peculiarly genial; and in sheltered places, as on the side of a bank, or of a barn or house, one becomes acquainted and friendly with the sunshine. It seems to be of a kindly and homely nature. And the green grass, strewn with a few withered leaves, looks the more green and beautiful for them.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Ugliness without tact is horrible.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness, and at least temporary affability, on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse; like the angel whom Jacob wrestled with, she is ready to bless you when once overcome.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!” whispered her mother. “We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The present is burthened too much with the past.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Perhaps a germ of love was springing in their hearts so pure that it might blossom in Paradise, since it could not be matured on earth;.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Again, after a blank moment, there would be a flickering taper-gleam in his eyeballs. It betokened that his spiritual part had returned, and was doing its best to kindle the heart’s household fire, and light up intellectual lamps in the dark and ruinous mansion, where it was doomed to be a forlorn inhabitant.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It appears to me,” said the daguerreotypist, smiling, “that Uncle Venner has the principles of Fourier at the bottom of his wisdom; only they have not quite so much distinctness in his mind as in that of the systematizing Frenchman.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “And the higher and purer the original object, and the more unselfishly it may have been taken up, the slighter is the probability that they can be led to recognize the process by which godlike benevolence has been debased into all-devouring egotism.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It has been delicately wrought,” said the artist, calmly. “As I told you, it has imbibed a spiritual essence – call it magnetism, or what you will. In an atmosphere of doubt and mockery its exquisite susceptibility suffers torture, as does the soul of him who instilled his own life into it. It has already lost its beauty; in a few moments more its mechanism would be irreparably injured.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Let us choose the rudest, roughest, most uncultivable spot, for Death’s garden ground; and Death shall teach us to beautify it, grave by grave.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Not yet hardened, many young die good.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. 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: “It is a kind of natural magic that enables these favored ones to bring out the hidden capabilities of things around them; and particularly to give a look of comfort and habitableness to any place which, for however brief a period, may happen to be their home.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “She could scarcely forgive him – least of all now, when the heavy footstep of their approaching Fate might be heard, nearer, nearer, nearer! – for being able so completely to withdraw himself from their mutual world – while she groped darkly, and stretched forth her cold hands, and found him not.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It was not painful to behold this look; for, though dim, it had not the imbecility of decaying age.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It is a comfortable thought, that the smallest and most turbid mud-puddle can contain its own picture of Heaven.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend, – this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their Creator...”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination.”
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