What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!
What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables

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Topic

Existential solitude Inner life Self-criticism

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

The House of Seven Gables

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 11.

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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

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Topic
Moral progress Social progress Progress
Speaker
Theodore Parker
Source
Ten Sermons of Religion
Medium
Sermon
Language
English
Time
1853 1850s 19th century
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Citation

Parker, Theodore. "Of Justice and the Conscience." Ten Sermons of Religion. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company/New York: Charles S. Francis and Company, 1853.