Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

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He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a matur — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffice — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might ma — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled elements, the beauty and th — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of gre — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! T — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adri — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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, The House of the Seven Gables
Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whate — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so black at me?""No matter, — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables