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
eye heart touching
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.
spiritual rain rivers
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
strong circles anxiety
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
book reading men
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
dream failure vision
Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth the having, it is certain never to be consummated otherwise than by a failure.
expression soul hints
He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
life success becoming
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
reflection voice echoes
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
animal humanity lambs
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.
mother treasure pearls
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
witty money peace
It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.
eden crime
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
views calmer truest
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view
moving butterfly land
Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land on you.