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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing

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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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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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Community
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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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Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

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No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts… – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com [And a resounding INFJ-hallel

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Writing

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath

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Oaths are the fossils of piety. – George Santayana

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A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Happiness