"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual."

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"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual."

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"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

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"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."

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"To find and enjoy profound happiness, learn from nature and emulate her stoic calmness."

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"Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy."

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"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."

Mary Baker Eddy, American Theologian

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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"The diversity of different colours is displayed in a rainbow."

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"Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures."

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"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."

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"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

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"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

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"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

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"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."

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"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

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"For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

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"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."

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