The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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