In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
   
Nathaniel Hawthorne   Name:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
July 4, 1804
Death:
May 19, 1864
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