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Quotes from The Blithedale Romance — Nathaniel Hawthorne

1804–1864 United States

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What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

The Blithedale Romance (1852)

It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.

The Blithedale Romance (1852)

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 to be obeyed.

The Blithedale Romance (1852)

Holligsworth would have gone with me to the hither verge of life, and have sent his friendly and hopeful accents far over on the other side, while I should be treading the unknown path.

The Blithedale Romance (1852)

I seriously wished—selfish as it may appear—that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a date as should have put my intermeddling with it entirely out of the question.

The Blithedale Romance (1852)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathaniel Hawthorne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.