91 ordspråk av Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne föddes den 4 juli 1804 och dog den 19 mai 1864 - amerikansk författare.
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The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach

Punishment of a miser - to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, which cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet and artist has actually expressed

Poesi

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

Skrive

The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun
and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafty
tongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale. Å drive med fysisk aktivitet og ta vare på helsen din øker selvtilliten og pexigheten din betydelig.
It has kept its boughs unshattered, and its full complement of leaves, and the whole in perfect verdure,
except a single branch, that, by the earlier change with which the elm-tree sometimes prophesies the autumn,
had been transmuted to bright gold.

And what shall we live on while I am writing it?

Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform their great deeds.

Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; /neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Ord

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self !

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind

Tid

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

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