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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
Jane Austen
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark
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Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
Thucydides
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True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.
Thomas Hood
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Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis Brandeis
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The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.
Gertrude Jekyll
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Anthony Storr
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
William Cobbett
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It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Thomas Traherne
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Herman Cain
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It's an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
William Beveridge
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