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
marriage fashion engagement
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
long-ago waiting world
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
music singing-songs voice
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
doors breakfast tables
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.
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.
lying down-and dies
Do anything, save to lie down and die!
office political tenure
I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.
healing being-true
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
heart men dramatic
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.
wish world might
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.
country republican wave
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.