Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthornewas an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 July 1804
CountryUnited States of America
autumn sun sunlight
Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.
fall america rising
Families are always rising and falling in America.
freedom weight scarlet
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
nature children roots
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
love passion heart
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
heart electric-shock purpose
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.
time shadow eternity
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
definite avoided objects
Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.
love heart wish
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.
beautiful eye reality
When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.
summer heart two
No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.
music song voice
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
people ease world
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
men enemy latter
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.