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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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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Goals
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones 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

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Wisdom
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Happiness
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People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. – Lucinda Williams

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Happiness

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing anothers happiness. – Aeschylus

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Happiness

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. – Frank Norris

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Happiness

I refuse to accept other peoples ideas of happiness for me. As if theres a one size fits all standard for happiness. – Kanye West

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Happiness

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. – Robert H. Schuller

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