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Quote by Maxim Gorky
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. – Maxim Gorky

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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. – Maxim Gorky

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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children. – Maxim Gorky

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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. – Maxim Gorky

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. – Bette Davis

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for. – Henry Van Dyke

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