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Quote 3620
As he had, however, six sons and six daughters, he found that his money was not too much to let them all have everything they fancied, as they were accustomed to do.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3614
That is the better to hug thee, my dear.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3613
Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3610
I am going to see my grandmamma and carry her a custard and a little pot of butter from my mamma.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3609
Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3566
I had now brought my state of life to be much easier in itself than it was at first, and much easier to my mind, as well as to my body.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3565
I had enough to eat and supply my wants, and what was all the rest to me?by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3459
Still thou wouldst love me, still that more than life retain.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3434
The sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3432
I frequently sat down to meat with thankfulness, and admired the hand of God's providence, which had thus spread my table in the wilderness.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3431
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3429
All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3414
To me an unambitious mind, content In the low vale of life, that early felt A wish to be a man, and knew the world.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3412
Happy the man who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that chequer life!by: William CowperShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3410
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3409
God made the country, and man made the town.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3406
A man may be cursed and rich; he may be blessed and poor.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3376
A small number of them may enrich a community; but a world composed of them would die of boredom.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3352
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3347
Any land is your country where you can live happy.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3326
There was something in the air, something sad and sweet at the same time.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3322
And after all the weather was ideal.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3297
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3284
My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky:Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3276
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3251
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,by: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3236
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others.by: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3217
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3211
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.by: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3190
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.by: EpiktetShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3170
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3132
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3110
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3098
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3090
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successfulShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3083
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be lovedby: George SandShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3081
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my familyby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3075
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcomeby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3049
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3019
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happyby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2995
The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purposeby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2688
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within himShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2557
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonderShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2556
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2553
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with GodShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2547
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his lifeShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2502
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate peopleby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2500
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurableby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2488
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2450
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselvesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2442
Happily in this community we all are bred and born to work; and this honorable mark, set on us all, should bind together the various portions of the communityShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2425
There is little success where there is little laughterby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2391
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoiceby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2340
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at allShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2337
The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2241
Growth itself contains the germ of happinessShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2143
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of libertyShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2129
The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2073
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to doShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2057
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happinessShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2023
You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happyShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2022
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy taleShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2020
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incidentShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2001
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of miseryby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1961
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chanceby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1916
From happiness to suffering is a step; from suffering to happiness is an eternity.Jewish proverbShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1880
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happyEskimo proverbShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1878
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joysShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1857
Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happyJapanese proverbShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1837
The highest happiness on earth is marriageShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1823
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1770
The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amountby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1765
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1762
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noiseby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1737
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1735
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corruptby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1730
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our griefby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1729
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companionsby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1651
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laughShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1650
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1632
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.by: William MorrisShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1624
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.by: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1602
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happinessby: AristotleShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1561
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserableby: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1503
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imaginesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1497
Wisdom is the supreme part of happinessby: SophoclesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1489
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.by: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1433
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1357
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselvesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1285
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.by: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1239
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdomby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1170
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without moneyby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1103
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have beenby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1097
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old ageShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1096
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old ageShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1059
Power, after love, is the first source of happinessby: StendhalShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1047
Diligence is the mother of good fortuneShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 948
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they goShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 947
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happinessby: Anatole FranceShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 946
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all menShowing Quotes on happiness
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