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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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"When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."

"Savour a slow-paced contented life."

"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."

"He is rich that is satisfied."

"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."

"The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men."

"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."

"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart."

"In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."
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