Quote by Don Marquis
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

Other quotes by Don Marquis

a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat – Don Marquis

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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. – Don Marquis

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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud

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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. – John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873

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Happiness

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama

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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life. – Agnes Martin

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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. – Booker T. Washington

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