Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The hap

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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave. – Yiddish Proverb

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This is Scott Fitzgerald: very romantic writer—big with English majors, college girls, nymphomaniacs… – Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973

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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

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But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget. – G. K. Chesterton

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If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved? – Author Unknown

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They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. Its, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television. – Dan Rather

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Its all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion. – Andrew Wyeth

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