narrow-how

Updated: June 25, 2025

My conscience, however, does not reproach me with betraying anything too sacredly individual to be revealed by a human spirit to its brother or sister spirit. How narrow-how shallow and scanty too is the stream of thought that has been flowing from my pen, compared with the broad tide of dim emotions, ideas, and associations which swell around me from that portion of my existence!

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")