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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms wi

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. – Jane Porter

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Imparting knowledge is only lighting other mens candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. – Jane Porter

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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. – Jane Porter

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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. – Theodor Adorno

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Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when youre a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately its gone. – Andrea Corr

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I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? – Joni Mitchell

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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. – David Brainerd

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