Quote #61

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

More from Nathaniel Hawthorne

  1. The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
  2. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
  3. What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
  4. Easy reading is damn hard writing.
  5. Life is made up of marble and mud.
  6. Clio's Protest, or the Picture Varnished (written 1771, published 1819) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  7. God will give him blood to drink!
  8. Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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