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Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward com

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. – Maurice Maeterlinck

Other quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Dogs
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Happiness
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Maurice Maeterlinck
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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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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. – William Shakespeare

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Happiness

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. – Douglas Horton

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Happiness

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. – Adam Weishaupt

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Happiness

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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. – Doug Coupland

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The great war of 1870 was not between the Germans and the French, but between beer and red wine. When the wine-flask came in contact with the beer-barrel, it was natural for the glass to be shattered. – Arthur Handly Marks, “Berlin: Its Bayonets and Its Beer” (Berlin, 1887 June 14th

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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. – K. D. Lang

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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in. – Eliot Spitzer

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