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William Cowper

"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

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"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

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"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."

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"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."

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"Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion."

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"There's nothing that brings peace to the mind like joy."

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"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."

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"The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away."
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"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."
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"No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed."
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"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."
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"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
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