Happiness
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony
No man is happy who does not think himself so
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change
The will of a man is his happiness
Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you!
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