Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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