Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right. - Natha

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Other quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that youve scowled upon. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Its best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken. – Aristotle

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There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth. – Vera Johnson

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Everything in moderation, including moderation. – Buddhist Wisdom

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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present. – William Lloyd Garrison

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. – Peter Ustinov

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I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent – things Id never thought about before. – Ezra Koenig

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If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now. – John Mayer

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The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. Its a battle you cant hope to win – its a battle thats going to go on forever. Its part of the human condition. – Christopher Hitchens

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