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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Writing
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Art
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you wont have to hunt for happiness. – William E. Gladstone

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Ive done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and Ive found no evidence that it brings happiness. – Mary McCormack

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – John Mason Brown

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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. – Plutarch

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I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. – Norman Brown

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The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. – Ronald Reagan

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Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time. – H.L. Mencken

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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. – Corrie Ten Boom

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Forgiveness