We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It is but for a moment, comparatively, that anything looks strange or startling -- a truth that has the bitter and the… — 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
Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Another phenomenon, still more strikingly modern, was a package of lucifer matches, which, in old times, would have been thought actually to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“She assured them,too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“… as to the better centuries that are coming, the artist was surely right. His error lay, in supposing that his age,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim… — 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… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“She knocked a third time, three regular strokes, gentle, but perfectly distinct, and with meaning in them; for, modulate it with what… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“His error lay in supposing that this age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“You are aware, my dear sir,—you must have observed it in your own experience,—that all human progress is in a circle; or,… — 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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