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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

"Nothing can be done, you know, until I get on the ground."
This quote is saying that the minister understands that life is a cycle. Everything that is born physically dies. This quote is showing his realization in that for the moment he is waiting for to come, the one he is living in presently must end. In this case the moment he is living in is a negative one but these moments can be positive as well. It is harder to accept this fact when the present moment is a positive one, because it seems to suck the experiencer in to dwell.

"What if a wretched old woman do choose to go to the devil when I thought she was going to heaven.; is that any reason why I should quit my dear Faith and go after her?"
Goodman Brown is very confused about himself. Here he wonders of the relationship between himself and the devil, and between himself and his wife. He is wondering if there is a connection between the two or if one will affect the other. The woman that he passed is a symbol of his past in the form of his old teacher. Since something from his past has turned to the devil, Goodman Brown wonders whether that is in his nature or not.