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

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Death
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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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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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You may not accomplish every goal you set — no one does — but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. – Les Brown

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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. – Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies (screenplay)

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If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. – Jack Dixon

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Business is the salt of life. – Voltaire

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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. – Euripides

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I think that what Im doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course. – Eric Holder

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Its funny because I think a lot of it is simply… Weve never considered ourselves satirists, but because were on Comedy Central and because were South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want. – Trey Parker

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