More from Nathaniel Hawthorne

  1. The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sun…
  2. Life is made up of marble and mud.
  3. Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards vari…
  4. What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
  5. Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. Not to be deficient in this …
  6. The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
  7. It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost developmen…
  8. Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - t…

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