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

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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Goals

Word by word the big books are made. – French Proverb

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Goals

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. – Jennifer Yane

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Goals

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

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Goals

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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty. – Jean Genet

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Beauty

Willful waste brings woeful want. – Thomas Fuller

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Excess

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebodys woman. – Charlize Theron

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Fear

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. – Barry Commoner

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environmental