Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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