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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1804
Born: July 4
Died: 1864
Died: May 18
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Salem
Massachusetts
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Monsieur de l'Aubépine
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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?
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
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The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.
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Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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...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.
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Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
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Let the black flower blossom as it may!
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.
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There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.
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