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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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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty.
Franz Kafka
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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
Anne Frank
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes — they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.
George Washington
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The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.
Aldous Huxley
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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
A. A. Milne
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria
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Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.
Samuel Johnson
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
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All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil—or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene
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I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Charlotte Brontë
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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Augustus Hare
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me.
Samuel Pepys
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There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.
Pierre Bayle
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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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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Georges Simenon
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