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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
«It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abilities, appreciate, brought, companionship, contributed, contributes, contributing, go out, greatly, habits, health, health care, individuals, intellectual, moral, pursuits, sphere, unlike
«In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.»
«The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
allot, allots, cemetery, colony, earliest, founders, invariably, necessities, originally, project, site, sites, the colonies, The Founders, The Virgin, Utopia, Virgin
«Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Accuracy
| Keywords:
accuracy, dishonesty, inaccuracy, twin, twin brother
«What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Guilt,
World
| Keywords:
estate, real estate, solid ground
«See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.»
«Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.»
«Much of the marble coldness of Hester's impression was to be attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought. Standing alone, as to any dependent on society, and with little Pearl to be guided and protected- alone, and hopeless of retrieving her position, even as she had not scorned to consider it desirable, she cast away the fragments of a broken chain.»