Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes and Sayings
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“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”
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“We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.”
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“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
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“...happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release...”
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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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“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
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“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”
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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.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne