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
men bewilderment
A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
travel technology men
Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?
dream looks strange
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
prison worst absurdity
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
weed flower pigs
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.
sleep entrepreneur waking
Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.
love mother grief
Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.
way needs nervous
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
flower black may
Let the black flower blossom as it may!
men young should
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
fear cowardice driven
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.
holiness sin enjoyment
We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.
love fighting men
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
sunshine giving pearls
No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.