EQ- Best Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A dead man sits on all our judgment seat

“ A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“ A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
“ Life is made up of marble and mud. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“ 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. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
“ Children came running with their mothers' scissors, or the carving knife, or the paternal razor, or anything else that lacked an edge (except, indeed, poor Clifford's wits) that the grinder might apply the article to his magic wheel, and give it back as good as new. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
“ Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into sentence: Be True! Be True! Be True! Show freely to the world if not the worst, yet some trait whereby the worst can be inferred. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
“ No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
“ I have an almost miraculous power of escaping from necessities of this kind. Destiny itself has often been worsted in the attempt to get me out to dinner. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“ Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ” ~ William Butler Yeats
“ Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal. ” ~ C. S. Lewis

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