"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."

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Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868). “Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.28

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness.”
“With the case of running, it really is a case of get out, set yourself a distance, run it, and then do it again the next day. It's tremendously simple.”
“Love is two minds without a single thought.”
“I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That's why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I'd much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever.”
“A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.”
“Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.”
“work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.”
“You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.”

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