Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning.Wikipedia
Born: July 4, 1804, Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Died: May 19, 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States
Full name: Nathaniel Hathorne
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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 the true.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
"In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one."
--from "The Birthmark" (1846)
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Singer-songwriter Bill Withers was born on July 4th 1938. Songs such as “Ain't No Sunshine”, “Lovely Day” and “Lean on Me” are considered “touchstones in the American musical experience”
Marie Curie died on July 4th 1934 of a bone-marrow disease earned after years of handling radioactive samples without protection. A pioneer in the study of radioactivity, Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize—and the first person to win two
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