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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness
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Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. – Samuel Chase

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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. – Alfred de Musset

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I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress. – Lillie Langtry

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. – Sam Levenson

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At root fame is a sham. Im not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need dont you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers. – Nick Mancuso

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