I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden… It is sad that Nature will play such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It was as if she had been made afresh out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“She perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
“What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster, which, after all,—though we can point to every feature of his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
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