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
years
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
men space office
...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
mother heart sorrow
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.
real eye fingers
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
lying past body
Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
book twilight sunshine
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
air atmosphere earth
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.
men shapes rage
The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.
men often-is circles
It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.
dream morning night
His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)
grief ease
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.
world may worst
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!
weakness terrible
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
love death heart
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.