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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More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
- We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.
- 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.
- 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.