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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#flies #leaves #over #shadow #time

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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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.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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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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