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"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."


"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."


"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."


"The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep."


"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."


"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall."
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