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Happiness.

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01c. 1842 AD

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into a usage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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02c. 1593 AD

O Life, an age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

Francis Bacon / quote

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03c. 1790 AD

One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with one.

Goethe / quote

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04c. 1790 AD

One must take a pleasure in the shell till one has the happiness to arrive at the kernel.

Goethe / quote

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05c. 1790 AD

Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

Goethe / quote

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06c. 1593 AD

The fortune which nobody sees makes a man happy and unenvied.

Francis Bacon / quote

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07c. 1790 AD

The highest happiness of us mortals is to execute what we consider right and good; to be really masters of the means conducive to our aims.

Goethe / quote

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08c. 1790 AD

The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world.

Goethe / quote

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09c. 1790 AD

The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe / quote

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10c. 1790 AD

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life.

Goethe / quote

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11c. 1790 AD

The most sorrowful occurrence often, through the hand of Providence, takes the most favourable turn for our happiness; the succession of fortune and misfortune in life is intertwined like sleep and waking, neither without the other, and one for the sake of the other.

Goethe / quote

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12c. 1790 AD

The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched.

Goethe / quote

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13c. 1790 AD

The tendency of laws should be rather to diminish the amount of evil than to produce an amount of happiness.

Goethe / quote

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14c. 1642 AD

There are only three classes of people—those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him; and those who live without either seeking or finding him—the first, rational and happy; the second, unhappy and rational; the third, foolish and unhappy.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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15c. 1642 AD

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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16c. 1642 AD

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging for being happy, it cannot be but that we never are so.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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17c. 1790 AD

Woe to every sort of culture which destroys the most effectual means of all true culture, and directs us to the end, instead of rendering us happy on the way.

Goethe / quote

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18c. 32 AD

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Seneca / quote

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19c. 75 BC

Life is to be considered happy, not in warding off evil, but in the acquisition of good: and this we should seek for by employment of some kind or by reflection.

Cicero / quote

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20c. 1790 AD

Happy the man who early learns the difference between his wishes and his powers.

Goethe / quote

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21c. 1790 AD

Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.

Goethe / quote

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22c. 1790 AD

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

Goethe / quote

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23c. 1842 AD

To fill the hour, that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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24c. 1842 AD

Always put the best interpretation on a tenet. Why not on Christianity, wholesome, sweet, and poetic? It is the record of a pure and holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested, a truth-speaker, and bent on serving, teaching, and uplifting men. Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love him was happiness,—to love him in others' virtues.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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