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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a mans hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. – Don Marquis

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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. – Carl Sandburg

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good days work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. – Henri Matisse

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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. – Giraldus Cambrensis

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