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The Minister's Black Veil QUOTES

The Minister's Black Veil QUOTES

1 " When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best-beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a black veil! "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , The Minister's Black Veil

2 " Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , The Minister's Black Veil

3 " The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper’s face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black veil. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , The Minister's Black Veil

4 " It was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes, that the music of a heavenly harp, swept by the fingers of the dead, seemed faintly to be heard among the saddest accents of the minister. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , The Minister's Black Veil