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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's read more
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, read more
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was read more
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of read more
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly read more
The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
[Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste read more
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
[Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft
Ermattet endlich.]
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once read more
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
