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Irving Babbitt

"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."

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"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."

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Donna Grant

"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."

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Donna Grant

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

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Donna Grant

"You can love again."

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Donna Grant

"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."

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Donna Grant

"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."

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Donna Grant

"My life is wondrous, and I appreciate it every day!"

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Donna Grant

"We savour on great memories of happy times."

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Donna Grant

"You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have."

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Donna Grant

"A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream."

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Donna Grant

"The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy."

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Irving Babbitt
"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."

Achievement

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Irving Babbitt
"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."

Sympathy

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Irving Babbitt
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."

Discipline

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Irving Babbitt
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."

Leadership

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Irving Babbitt
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."

Virtue

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Irving Babbitt
"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."

Sympathy

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Irving Babbitt
"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."

Reading

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Irving Babbitt
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."

Society

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Irving Babbitt
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."

Faith

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Irving Babbitt
"We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective."

Humanity

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