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" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "

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" Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. "

" Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. "

" I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. "

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" The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. "

" Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. "

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" Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. "

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" The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. "

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" To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. "

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" A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. "

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" Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. "

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" Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. "

" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "

" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. "

" Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. "

" And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. "

" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "

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" A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. "

" Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too. "

" Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner's happiness. "

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" Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss. "

" The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. "

" The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. "

" Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. "

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" Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. "

" Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody. "

" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "