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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

"You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be."

"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."

"The reward of life is Joy."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
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"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon."

"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."

"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."

"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."

"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
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