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"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
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"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."
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"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."
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"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."
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"Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like."
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"You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be."
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"Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security."
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"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
Science
"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
Society
"Leap, and the net will appear."
Will
"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
Happiness
"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
History
"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."
Age
"The secret of happiness is something to do."
Happiness
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
Friendship
"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
Advice
"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."
Man
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