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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.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
achieves, aims, devoid, dignitaries, dignitary, significance
«You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.»
«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.»
«Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach»