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Quotation from A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Hope spiritualizes the earth; Hope makes it always new; and, even in the earth's best and brightest aspect, Hope shows it to be only the shadow of an infinite bliss hereafter.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne (spoken by Narrator (Eustace Bright))

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Paradise of Children (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242)

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Closing the tale, the storyteller admits the Troubles are still in the world but says he cannot help being glad that Pandora let Hope out.

Citation: "Hope spiritualizes the earth; Hope makes it always new; and, even in the earth's best and brightest aspect, Hope shows it to be only the shadow of an infinite bliss hereafter." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Paradise of Children (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242). (id a-wonder-book-q4)

Virtues: Hope

Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.

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