纳撒尼尔·霍桑语录

纳撒尼尔·霍桑语录
1. "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." - The Scarlet Letter
2. "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - The House of the Seven Gables
3. "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." - The Scarlet Letter
4. "It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom." - The Blithedale Romance
5. "Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not." - The House of the Seven Gables
6. "We are but shadows; we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream." - The Marble Faun
7. "The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits." - The Blithedale Romance
8. "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed." - The Blithedale Romance
9. "The truth was the flame which gave us light." - The Scarlet Letter
10. "It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate." - The Scarlet Letter
11. "The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash." - The Scarlet Letter
12. "The world is full of such queer contradictions, and the only logical thing to do is to contradict them all." - The House of the Seven Gables
13. "It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates." - The Scarlet Letter
14. "A pure hand needs no glove to cover it." - The Scarlet Letter
15. "The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other." - The Marble Faun
16. "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
17. "A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part." - The Scarlet Letter
18. "The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness." - The House of the Seven Gables
19. "The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance." - The House of the Seven Gables
20. "Life is made up of marble and mud." - The Marble Faun
21. "We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart." - The Scarlet Letter
22. "The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men." - The Scarlet Letter
23. "It is a good lesson -- though it may often be a hard one -- for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at." - The House of the Seven Gables
24. "It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." - The House of the Seven Gables 25. "The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease." - The Blithedale Romance
26. "A man's own self is the last person to believe anything good of him." - The
Scarlet Letter
27. "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed." - The Blithedale Romance
28. "Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!" - The Scarlet Letter
29. "There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name." - The Scarlet Letter
30. "We are but shadows; we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream." - The Marble Faun。