There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so… — 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 world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me. — 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
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
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
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
The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave… — 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
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance… — 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
Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the… — 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
Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform… — 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
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste? — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized. — 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
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our… — 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
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long… — 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
