"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
-William Ellery Channing
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"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.“
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"The great hope of society is in individual character."
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"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
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"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
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"The world is governed by opinion."
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