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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Unknown to all but Hester Prynne, and possessing the lock and key of her silence, he chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and interests, to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean, whither rumor had long ago consigned him.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “All such professors of the several branches of jocularity would have been sternly repressed, not only by the rigid discipline of law, but by the general sentiment which give law its vitality.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The links that united her to the rest of human kind – links of flowers, or silk or gold – had all been broken.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “To the untrue man, the whole universe is false.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Thy acts are like mercy,” said Hester, bewildered and appalled. “But thy words interpret thee as a terror!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The world’s law was no law for her mind.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “At the other end... was provided a deep and cushioned seat. Here, on the cushion, lay a folio tome, probably of the Chronicles of England, or other such substantial literature; even as, in our own days, we scatter gilded volumes on the centre-table, to be turned over by the casual guest.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “These names of gentleman and lady had a meaning, in the past history of the world, and conferred privileges, desirable, or otherwise, on those entitled to bear them. In the present – and still more in the future condition of society – they imply, not privilege, but restriction.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Let God punish! Thou shalt forgive!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Thus it was with the men of rank, on whom their eminent position imposed the guardianship of the public morals.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “I have thought of death,” said she – “have wished for it – would even have prayed for it, were it fit that such as I should pray for anything.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Leave this wreck and ruin here where it hath happened! Meddle no more with it! Begin all new!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “In all seasons of calamity, indeed, whether general or of individuals, the outcast of society at once found her place. She came, not as a guest, but as a rightful inmate, into the household that was darkened by trouble, as if its gloomy twilight were a medium in which she was entitled to hold intercourse with her fellow-creatures.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendor, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanor on the part of the spectators; as befitted a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Miserable!” exclaimed Rappaccini. “What mean you, foolish girl? Dost thou deem it misery to be endowed with marvellous gifts against which no power nor strength could avail an enemy – misery, to be able to quell the mightiest with a breath – misery, to be as terrible as thou art beautiful? Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It was carelessly at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “They had looked love with eyes that conveyed the holy secret from the depths of one soul into the depths of the other, as if it were too sacred to be whispered.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “In giving her existence, a great law had been broken; and the result was a being, whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but all in disorder; or with an order peculiar to themselves, amidst which the point of variety and arrangement was difficult or impossible to be discovered.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “They little guessed what deadly purport lurked in those self-condemning words.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The truth seems to be, however, that, when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him, better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “I begin to suspect that the man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Man’s best-directed effort accomplishes a kind of dream, while God is the sole worker of realities.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide – but so quickly close again!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived. He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Whatever else I may repent of, therefore, let it be reckoned neither among my sins nor follies that I once had faith and force enough to form generous hopes of the world’s destiny – yes! – and to do what in me lay for their accomplishment;.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Not a stitch in that embroidered letter, but she has felt it in her heart.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It was one of those moments – which sometimes occur only at the interval of years – when a man’s moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his minds age.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “I said, but now, that there could be no good event for him, or thee, or me, who are here wandering together in this gloomy maze of evil, and stumbling, at every step, over the guilt wherewith we have strewn our path.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Drink it! It may be less soothing than a sinless conscience. That I cannot give thee. But it will calm the swell and heaving of thy passion, like oil thrown on the waves of a tempestuous sea.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature – whatever be the delinquencies of the individual – no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame; as it was the essence of this punishment to do.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The experiment, so far as its original projectors were concerned, proved, long ago, a failure; first lapsing into Fourierism, and dying, as it well deserved, for this infidelity to its own higher spirit. Where.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “She shuddered to believe, yet could not help believing, that it gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It depresses me to look at old frescos,” responded the Count; “it is a pain, yet not enough of a pain to answer as a penance.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Men of uncommon intellect who have grown morbid, possess this occasional power of mighty effort, into which they throw the life of many days and then are lifeless for as many more.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Her simple, careless, childish flow of spirits often made me sad. She seemed to me like a butterfly at play in a flickering bit of sunshine, and mistaking it for broad and eternal summer. We sometimes hold mirth to stricter accountability than sorrow; it must show good cause, or the echo of its laughter comes back drearily.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Whenever any subject so forcibly affects the mind, time is well spent in thinking of it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “At almost every step in life, we meet with young men of just about Holgrave’s age, for whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, even after mucha nd careful inquiry, we never happen to hear another word. The effervescence of youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of the intellect and imagination, endow them with a false brilliancy, which makes fools of themselves and other people.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. 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: “Life had never brought them a gloomier hour; it was the point whither their pathway had so long been tending, and darkening ever, as it stole along; – and yet it enclosed a charm that made them linger upon it, and claim another, and another, and, after all, another moment.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Mindful, however, of her own errors and misfortunes, she early sought to impose a tender, but strict control over the infant immortality that was committed to her charge. But the task was beyond her skill.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “It seemed to me – the reader may smile, but must not doubt my word – it seemed to me, then, that I experienced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, as of burning heat, and as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron. I shuddered, and involuntarily let it fall upon the floor.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “Alone in the world, cast off by it, and with this sole treasure to keep her heart alive, she felt that she possessed indefeasible rights against the world, and was ready to defend them to the death.”
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