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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing

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. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Other quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Goals
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Art
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Death
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Other Quotes from
Writing
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Writing

Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. – E.L. Doctorow

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Writing

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. – Enrique Jardiel Poncela

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Writing

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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. – Harry S. Truman

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Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work. – Author Unknown

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