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"We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness."
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"A joyful life, life of contentment."
"Pleasure is different from "happiness". It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!"
"Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God."
"If you have enjoyed something, but have never experienced joy, then u have not really been happy."
"Most sane human beings' chances of being alive in a thousand years' time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days."
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"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
"Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy."
"Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind."
"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"
"Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?"
"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it."
"How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing."
"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in."
"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."
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