"If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start."

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Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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“Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,”
“We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.”
“He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.”
“When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.”
“And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.”
“People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.”
“The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.”
“I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.”

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