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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. - Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. – Arthur Helps

Other quotes by Arthur Helps

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. – Arthur Helps

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Beauty
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. – Arthur Helps

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Wisdom
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for. – Henry Van Dyke

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Happiness

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge. – Polly Toynbee

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Happiness

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer

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Happiness

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Happiness

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man–yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. – Marcus Antonius

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Humanity

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. – Thomas Frank

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Government

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

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Art

It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Sympathy