"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
-William Cowper
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"Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.“
-William Cowper
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"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."
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"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."
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"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home."
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."
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"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-Ernest Hemingway
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell
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