Quote by Arthur Helps
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. - Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. – Arthur Helps

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. – Arthur Helps

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. – William Dean Howells

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them. – Thomas Traherne

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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. – Michael J. Fox

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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. – Gustav Stickley

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I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than Americas and juicier than Britains. I think its a cross between the two of them, really. – Scott Thompson

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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