In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.


Chapter II: The Market-Place - The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by...

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by...

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by...

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by...