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"A joyful life, life of contentment."

"Pleasure is different from "happiness". It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!"

"Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God."

"Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator."

"If you have enjoyed something, but have never experienced joy, then u have not really been happy."
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"The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature."

"At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language."

"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose."

"The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry."

"A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable."

"There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view."

"One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index."

"But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations."
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