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    Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    ...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin. ↗


    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #sin #faith

    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

    O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?—such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin. ↗


    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #sin #age

    ... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. ↗


    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #crushed-spirit #gloom #house-of-the-seven-gables #low #men

    Thou are my only reality-- all other people are but shadows to me: all events and actions, in which thou dost not mingle, are but dreams. ↗


    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #love #reality #dreams

    he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance. ↗


    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #mind #search #food

    Thus, by an inevitable necessity, as a magnet attracts steel-fillings, so did our man of business draw to himself the difficulties which everybody met with. ↗


    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #business

    Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and re-planted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. ↗


    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #metaphor #nature

    The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ↗


    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #ends #family #first #friends #gratification

    Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ↗


    — Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #always #beyond #butterfly #down #grasp






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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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