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  1. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
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  2. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors.
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  3. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    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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  4. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    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? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?
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  5. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    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."
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  6. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.
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  7. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    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.
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  8. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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  9. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
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  10. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    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.
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  11. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self!
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  12. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
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