Should Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

14 Should quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 14 lines on “Should” carry the weight of his 19th‑century storytelling. They hint at the inner conflict between conscience and society, making each sentence feel like a quiet confession.

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Death should take me while I am in the mood.

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She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.

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Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's…

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What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which…

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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet…

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If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations,…

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There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our…

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Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone,…

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It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to…

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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what…

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As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian…

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Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,…

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America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while…

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It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim…

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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

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“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth…

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“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!”

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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest…

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Generosity is the flower of justice.

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“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”

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“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”

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“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,…

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“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…

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