"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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"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.“
-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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"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."
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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."
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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."
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"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
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-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
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