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Francis Quarles

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

The thing that must survive you is not just the record of your practice, but the principles that are the basis of your practice.

Character | Practice | Principles |

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Theodor Reik

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Character | Man | Happiness | Think |

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Moshe Rosenstein, fully Moshe ben Chaim Rosenstein

A person who makes his happiness dependent on material or physical pleasures will never be guaranteed happiness. There is always something that might happen to destroy his happiness and success. The only guarantee for happiness is to find happiness in spiritual growth.

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Philip Skelton

Our principles are the springs of our actions; our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Care | Character | Principles | Happiness |

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Alexander Smith

When a men is happy, every effort to express his happiness mars its completeness.

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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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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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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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Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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