Minister's Black Veil Quotes

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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!
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Minister's Black Veil)
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Thus from beneath the black veil there rolled a cloud into the sunshine, an ambiguity of sin or sorrow, which enveloped the poor minister, so that love or sympathy could never reach him.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (Twice Told Tales)
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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.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Minister's Black Veil - Original Edition)
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Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (Twice Told Tales)
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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.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Minister's Black Veil)
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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.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Minister's Black Veil)