What did Nathaniel Hawthorne mean by: Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA Copy
+ The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Absurd, Prison, Worst, 0 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
+ But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passion, Principles, Purpose, 0 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
+ Keep the imagination sane–that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Communion, Heaven, Imagination, 0 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
+ Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Death, Towns, 0 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
+ It loves more readily than it hates. Feraz Zeid, July 3, 2023December 12, 2023, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hate, 0 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
+ She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ease, Grief, 0 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
+ Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nervous, 0 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
+ The present is burthened too much with the past. Feraz Zeid, July 31, 2023December 12, 2023, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Past, 0 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. - Matt Prior Cricketer · England
Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale. - Linda Gordon
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing. - James Elroy Flecker Poet · England
