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; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose.
Nathaniel HawthorneTag: nobility boast vain brag useless-talents lazyness high-class-style house-of-the-seven-gables
In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the soreness of the preceding torture in our limbs.
Nathaniel HawthorneTag: work dread torture reluctance
It is a strange experience for a man of pride and feeling to know that his interests are in the control of strangers who don’t like or understand him.
Nathaniel HawthorneBut it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals who neither love nor understand him
Nathaniel HawthorneLaughter, when out of place, mistimed, or bursting forth from a disordered state of feeling, may be the most terrible modulation of the human voice.
Nathaniel HawthorneReturning to the arched window, she lifted her eyes- scowling, poor dim-sighted Hepzibah, in the face of heaven!- and strove hard to send up a prayer through the dense grey pavement of clouds. Those mists had gathered , as if to symbolize a great, brooding mass of human trouble, doubt, confusion, and chill indifference, between earth and the better regions. Her faith was too weak; the prayer to heavy to be thus uplifted. It fell back, a lump of lead, upon her heart. It smote her with the wretched conviction that Providence intermeddled not in these petty wrongs of one individual to his fellow, nor had any balm for these little agonies of a solitary soul; but shed it's justice , and it's mercy, in a broad, sunlike sweep, over half the universe at once. It's vastness made it nothing. But Hepzibah did not see that, just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need
Nathaniel Hawthornehe seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.
Nathaniel HawthorneWhen he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!
Nathaniel HawthorneTag: curiosity darkness light privacy mind-thoughts
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.
Nathaniel HawthorneTag: family assimilation heritage ancestors adapt family-line
إن جدتي قالت لي يوما إن هذه العين كانت يوما ما امرأة جميلة. ولما قتل ولدها بسهام الصائدة (ديانا) ذابت نفسها حسرات وتحولت هي كلهاإلى دموع، وعلى ذلك فإن هذا الماء الذي وجدته عذبا باردا إن هو إلا نفثات قلب هذه الأم الثكلى
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