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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist known for his Gothic novels and romantic works. His writings often delve into themes of morality and sin, influenced by his family history and Puritan background.

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Famous Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

“The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.”

Ifs Thinking Men Moments Greater Worst Serious Accidents Misfortunes Remedy Nevertheless Consolation Sufferers Contingency

Book:The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.”

Knows Wells Moments Character Difficult

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”

May Sometimes Moments Dream Death Suicide Life And Death Funeral Waking After Death Life Death Life After Death Near Death Love Death Funerals And Death Death Memorial Heaven And Death Death Prayer

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.”

Way Mind Self Matter Moments Speak Sleep Regard Deception Unconscious Waking Self Deception Robes Practise Uncompromising

Book:Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

Source: Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

“Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]”

Giving Self Moments Age Loss Deals Passing Passings Old Age Isolation Decay Suspension Swiftness Passing Moments

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

Men Needs Book Moments Dream Sleep Walks Study Waking

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)”

Men World Whole Moments Individual Forever Risk Losing Confusion Mysterious Fearful Seeming Mysterious World

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.”

Men Years Mind Sometimes Moments Eye Moral Aspect Intervals

Book:The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

“There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.”

Men Moments Success Evil Resolve Execution Wickedness

Book:Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.”

Thinking Men Moments

Book:The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

Moments Dream Sleep Walks Waking

Book:The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter