“ Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. ”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables (1851). copy citation
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| Source | House of the Seven Gables |
| Topic | weakness strength |
| Date | 1851 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/77/77-h/77-h.htm |
Context
“Apart from any definite cause of dread which his past experience might have given him, he felt that native and original horror of the excellent Judge which is proper to a weak, delicate, and apprehensive character in the presence of massive strength. Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. There is no greater bugbear than a strong-willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
XII The Daguerreotypist
IT must not be supposed that the life of a personage naturally so active as Phoebe could be wholly confined within the precincts of the old Pyncheon House.”
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