Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
More Quotes from Nathaniel Hawthorne:
The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sunand a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leaftytongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale. 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.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that nature will play such tricks with us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, tricking us to the heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Fate & Destiny Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Reality Quotes, Woman QuotesBased on Keywords: reproached
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
Les Baxter
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
David Byrne
How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
Bum Phillips