Quote by Henry Knox
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to se

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public. – Henry Knox

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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. – Henry Knox

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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. – Thomas Traherne

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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. – James Thomson

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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. – Walter Savage Landor

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