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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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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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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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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Writing
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Art
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Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. – Albert Perry

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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. – Alexander Pope

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The world is a sunny success. – Terri Guillemets

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I dont think were going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only weve got to translate that into whats in it for us. – Jim Fowler

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