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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and

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

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Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. – David Brainerd

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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. – David Brainerd

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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. – Jonathan Edwards

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Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. – Godfrey Reggio

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Whoever said money cant buy happiness simply didnt know where to go shopping. – Bo Derek

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The map is not the territory. – Alfred Korzybski

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