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Alexander Smith

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human [mortal] life.

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Alexander Smith

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

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Dodie Smith, fully Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith

Extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Character | Extreme | Religion | Happiness |

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How can you clarify if you do good deeds because they are right or merely to gain honor and approval? Ask yourself: “Would I do this if I were all alone and no one would ever find out about my good deed?”

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Avraham-Haim Shag, born Avraham-Haim Tzvebner

There is no greater fool than one who makes his happiness based on receiving honor and approval. Such a person’s happiness is always in the hands of others... Such a person is dependent on other people his enter life and will frequently suffer humiliation. Only an idiot would knowingly and willingly put himself in a situation where he will constantly be in need of others and will humiliate himself for a dubious and questionable benefit.

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Charles Simmons

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Character | Man | Right |

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Robert Southey

Of all the sights which can soften and humanize the heart of men, there is none that ought so surely to reach it as that of innocent children, enjoying the happiness which is their proper and natural portion.

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Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Character | Fame | Mankind | Happiness |

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Jeremy Taylor

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Character | Men | Happiness | Think |

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Sydney Smith

Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet: if she has five grains of common sense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value.

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William Graham Sumner

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found the courage to say that there is none.

Character | Courage | Men | Happiness |

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William Temple, fully Archbishop William Temple

The right relation between prayer and conduct is not that conduct is supremely important and prayer may help it, but that prayer is supremely important and conduct tests it.

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