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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Do anything, save to lie down and die!


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#just-do-it #live-life #courage

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#nature #sunshine #nature

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#inspirational

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)


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#dreams

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#hero #heroic #unless #world

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#devil #possession #rage #anger

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.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#battle #brave #brave men #contests #daily

all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#love

Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#love

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#strength #faith






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Suffering from pain in his stomach Hawthorne insisted on a recuperative trip with his friend Franklin Pierce though his neighbor Bronson Alcott was concerned Hawthorne was too ill. Guests that came to speak that season included Emerson Thoreau Louis Agassiz and Theodore Parker. Selected works


Novels
Fanshawe (publiNathaniel Hawthorned anonymously 1828)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
The Marble Faun: Or The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) (as Transformation: Or The Romance of Monte Beni UK publication same year)
The Dolliver Romance (1863) (unfiniNathaniel Hawthorned)
Septimius Felton; or the Elixir of Life (PubliNathaniel Hawthorned in the Atlantic Monthly 1872)
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance (unfiniNathaniel Hawthorned) with Preface and Notes by Julian Hawthorne (1882)


Short story collections
Twice-Told Tales (1837)
Grandfather's Chair (1840)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852)
Tanglewood Tales (1853)
The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces (1876)
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)
The Celestial Railroad and Other Short Stories


Selected short stories
"Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832)
"My Kinsman Major Molineux" (1832)
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
"The Gray Champion" (1835)
"The White Old Maid" (1835)
"Wakefield" (1835)
"The Ambitious Guest" (1835)
"The Minister's Black Veil" (1836)
"The Man of Adamant" (1837)
"The Maypole of Merry Mount" (1837)
"The Great Carbuncle" (1837)
"Dr.

The Scarlet Letter was publiNathaniel Hawthorned in 1850 followed by a succession of other novels. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821 was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824 and graduated in 1825.

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