Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.


The marble faun (ed. 1876)


When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They...

When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They...

When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They...

When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They...