Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. - Nathani

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Other quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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People
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It contributes greatly towards a mans 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. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Health
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Wisdom
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Other Quotes from
Selfishness
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Ive given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. – Oscar Levant

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Selfishness

How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a mans self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty, – Charles Lamb

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Selfishness

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Selfishness

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. – Hailliard

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Selfishness

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Election Day

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged. – Peter Bayle

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