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"The House of the Seven Gables" is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of guilt, revenge, and the impact of the past on the present. The story revolves around the Pyncheon family, who live in a decaying mansion in Massachusetts. The house itself is a symbol of the family’s dark history, intertwined with an ancestral curse linked to an unjust land acquisition. The narrative delves into the lives of the current residents...

When he is cheerful - - when the sun shines into his mind - - then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls! — Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the...

Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds, and events which passed as a perfect void to persons more practised with the world. As all is activity and vicissitude to the new mind of a child, so might it be, likewise, to a mind that had undergone a kind of new creation, after its longsuspended life. — Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the...

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great,...

A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!

Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?...

The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them;...

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal...

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

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

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

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