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Quotes from The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne

1804–1864 United States

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

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

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

God will give him blood to drink!

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one — none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance — to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.

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A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any more evident, at the last page than at the first.

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Is it a fact — or have I dreamt it — that by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence: or shall we say it is itself a thought, nothing but thought, and no longer the substance which we dreamed it.

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathaniel Hawthorne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.