Happiness Quotes

• "Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master."
  By: Frederick William Robertson
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• "The happiness life consists, like the day, not in single flashes of light, but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm, equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "The happiness of the wicked flows away as a torrent. [Fr., Le bonheur des mechants comme un torrent s'ecoule.]"
  By: Jean Baptiste Racine, Athalie (II, 7)
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• "It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "Happiness is a homemade article."
  By: Proverb
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• "It is ever thus with happiness; It is the gay to-morrow of the mind, That never comes."
  By: Edna Dean Proctor
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• "Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire."
  By: Duchesse de Praslin
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• "Happiness is not perfected until it is shared."
  By: Jane Porter
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• "Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their happiness; But equal wants this happiness increase, All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace."
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 53)
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• "Fix'd to no spot is Happiness sincere; 'Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'rywhere; 'Tis never to be bought, but always free."
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 15)
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• "Oh happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate'er thy name; That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die."
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 1)
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• "Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and no in those necessary things.""
  By: Plutarch, Morals (vol. II, Of the Love of Wealth)
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• "That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessaries are not wanting."
  By: Plutarch
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• "The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others."
  By: Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
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• "Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it."
  By: Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
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• "Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so."
  By: Blaise Pascal, Thoughts (ch. V, sec. I)
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