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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self!”
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.”
“I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.”
“In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.”
“Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.”
“The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob.”
“The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they are compelled to inhale the poison of their own breath, in infinite repetition.”
“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.”
“A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!”
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