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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes

American Novelist, Writer July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864

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Thou are my only reality-- all other people are but shadows to me: all events and actions, in which thou dost not mingle, are but dreams. Nathaniel Hawthorne
For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put ourselves to death in whole-hearted simplicity? Nathaniel Hawthorne
He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it..."
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. Nathaniel Hawthorne
I have an almost miraculous power of escaping from necessities of this kind. Destiny itself has often been worsted in the attempt to get me out to dinner. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they are compelled to inhale the poison of their own breath, in infinite repetition. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound and were bandying it to and fro. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety."
We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gaiety."
We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gaiety. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the..."
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin...."
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the..."
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win..."
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "Death should take me while I am in the mood."
Death should take me while I am in the mood. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Clergymen, judges, statesmen--the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day--stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of blood, latest to confess themselves miserably deceived. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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