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
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.
nature trying nonsense
I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.
faith light splendor
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
lying down-and dies
Do anything, save to lie down and die!
doors breakfast tables
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.
should provision intensity
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.
horse heart sound
I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
ghost made interest
In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.
nature feelings may
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.
spiritual health looks
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
hate play selfishness
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
flower justice generosity
Generosity is the flower of justice.
happiness lying reality
That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.