Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. – 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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There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are. – Frederick L. Collins

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There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. – Robert Byrne

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No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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People are who they are — give or take 15%. – Modern Family, “Fifteen Percent,” written by Steven Levitan, spoken by the chara

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I dont respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to… if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot. – Woody Allen

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. – Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. – Martin Scorsese

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