"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
Topic(s):
Society
More From Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
- "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."
- "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."
More In Society
- "My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment."― Nadia Comaneci
- "Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."― Herbert Spencer
- "My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It’s their work that I’m supporting. So it’s not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them."― George Soros