Ellen Glasgow - Happiness Quotes

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Ever since her childhood she had always begun to work at her chest of drawers when any sudden shock unnerved her. After a great happiness she took up her trowel and dug among the flowers of the garden; but when her heart was heavy within her, she shut her door and put her clothes to rights.

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Conscience represents a fetish to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

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Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

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Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

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And she saw now that the strong impulses which had once wrecked her happiness were the forces that had enabled her to rebuild her life out of the ruins.

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And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

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Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

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We didn't talk so much about happiness in my day. When it came, we were grateful for it, and, I suppose, a little went farther than it does nowadays. We may have been all wrong in our ideas, but we were brought up to think other things more important than happiness.

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