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"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world."
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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."
"If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich."
"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."
"I want you to be happy and for me to be part of that happiness."
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"This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words."
"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."
"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
"Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it."
"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"
"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."
"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food."
"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."
"Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you."
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