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
conceive great lifted men order perform shoulders
Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform their great deeds.
men brotherhood sin
'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.
book reading men
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
memories men needs
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
eye passion men
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
men heaven monsters
Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
success men evil
There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.