Happiness
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will
Man is the artificer of his own happiness
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy
The only really happy folk are married women and single men
Happiness is unrepented pleasure
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness
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