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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James

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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. – William James

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. – Chinese Proverb

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When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. – Sophocles

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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. – Jeremy Bentham

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Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. – George Santayana

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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. – Kahlil Gibran

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