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  • The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.634, e-artnow

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

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851). “The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance”, p.197

  • The present is burthened too much with the past.

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    1856 Entry for 27 Mar at the British Museum, collected in The English Notebooks (1870).

  • Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.634, e-artnow
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Born: July 4, 1804
  • Died: May 19, 1864
  • Occupation: Novelist
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