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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

«It is a good lesson /though it may often be a hard one /for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.»
«A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats»
«Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | About: Economics, Religion | Keywords: kin
«You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.»
«This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.»
«Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.»
«It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.»
«The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death»
«Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach»
«Punishment of a miser - to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: drafts

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