A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible.… — 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
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream : it may be so at the moment after death.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work… — 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
Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face? — NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Copy Share Image
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps… — 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 Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 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
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 Image
“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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