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... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so black at me?""No matter, darky," said the carpenter. "Do you think nobody is to look black but yourself?

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however serious, however trifling--all dance to one identical tune, and, in spite of our ridiculous activity, bring nothing finally to pass.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world!

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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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? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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