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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a

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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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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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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Goals
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I really enjoy theater. I just went to see Death of a Salesman, and it knocked me on my ass. – Jason Reitman

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The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldnt get along without them. – Proverb

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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. – Leonardo DaVinci

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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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