Creative Quotations from . . .
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864) born on
Jul 04
US "novelist, short-story writer". "He was the leading U.S. fiction-writer of 19th century; wrote "The Scarlet Letter," 1850."
 
   
F
Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.

R
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
A
"Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform their great deeds."
N
"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and, lastly, the solid cash."
K
Life is made up of marble and mud.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""English Notebooks," 1870; entry for 27 Mar 1856."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: "The House of the Seven Gables, Ch. 2"



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