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  • William James Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Leo C. Rosten Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
    Leo C. Rosten
     
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Deepak Chopra Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
    Deepak Chopra
    East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jane Porter Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Ayn Rand Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ovid Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • George Eliot Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Claude Adrien Helvétius Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
    Claude Adrien Helvétius
    French philosopher (1715 - 1771)
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  • Jacob Bronowski Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Hatred which is entirely conquered by love passes into love, and love on that account is greater than if it had not been preceded by hatred.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • James Baldwin Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Walt Whitman Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Anna Louise Strong Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Buffalo Bill Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • C. S. Lewis He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 19-20
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ben Jonson He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.
    Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Jonathan Swift He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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