More from Nathaniel Hawthorne

  1. God will give him blood to drink!
  2. What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
  3. The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sun…
  4. The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
  5. 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…
  6. Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - t…
  7. 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 …
  8. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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