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"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."
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"Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home."
"A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it."
"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."
"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
"Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time."
"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
"It is wealth to be content."
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"Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation."
"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"
"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."
"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."
"Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves."
"A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one."
"It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out."
"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
"When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain."
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