Avenues to Success for 09/24/08

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

     - Nathaniel  Hawthorne, 1804-1864, American novelist and short story writer

Source: Wikipedia

"As a young man [Nathaniel] Hawthorne had been a recluse. His gift of vision made him different, as he walked an isthmus between time and eternity."
Patrick J. Walsh; Hawthorne's God; Weekly Standard (Washington, DC); Jan 2, 2006

(This quote demonstrated the use of the word "isthmus" in the Magic of Words, www.wordsmith.org)

Here are some more sites about Nathaniel Hawthorne:

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Washington State University

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Home Page - Eldritchpress.org

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Wayside Year (1852-53 and 1860-64) - National Park Service

     ...The years in which Nathaniel Hawthorne owned The Wayside were among the most turbulent in America's history. The nation was fragmenting over the issue of slavery, with passions inflamed both pro and con. Left to his own devices, Hawthorne would have preferred to remain a non-participant in the angry debates, but such was not the case. He was closely associated with men and women on both sides of the issue - from his abolitionist neighbors, the Alcotts, Emersons, and Thoreaus, his sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Mary Mann - to his pro-Union friend and benefactor, Franklin Pierce. ...

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