Hawthorne

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    We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
    —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

    No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
    —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

    I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one’s native State;Mneither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)