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"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"You can love again."
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"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."
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"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."
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"We savour on great memories of happy times."
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"You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have."
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"A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream."
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"The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy."
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"At its deepest level, prayer is fellowship with God: enjoying His company, waiting upon His will, thanking Him for His mercies . . . listening in the silence for what He has to say to us."
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"Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn."
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"Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women."
Sociology
"I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too."
Observation
"No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his."
Ethics
"The source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible."
Ethics
"Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility."
Ethics
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
Originality
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
Originality
"The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my knowing that the cloud is a vapour of water, subject to all the laws of vapours in a state of suspension; and I am just as likely to allow for, and act on, these physical laws whenever there is occasion to do so, as if I had been incapable of perceiving any distinction between beauty and ugliness."
Nature
"First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of the truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied."
Ethics
"I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go ."
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