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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that de

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

Other quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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
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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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Butterflies
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. – Sidney Howard

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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don – Mary Kay Ash

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Goals

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man

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Goals

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