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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – 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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Time the great destroyer of other mens happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. – Isaac DIsraeli

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The gratification of desire is not happiness. – Daisaku Ikeda

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A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. – Author Unknown

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. – George A. Sheehan

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