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«Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
awakened, imposed, mightier, sensibilities, tremble
«It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name»
«Easy reading is damn hard writing.»
«Generosity is the flower of justice.»
«She named the infant `Pearl', as being of great price - purchased with all she had.»
«Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born of God?s care for every need.»
«No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
antiquity, commonplace, conceive of, daylight, gloomy, happily, native, native land, picturesque, trial
«Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.»
«Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?»
«A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ailment, bodily, look upon, symptom, The Spiritual
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