“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, book The House of the Seven Gables

Source: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XX : The Flower of Eden

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American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

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