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Quote by Samuel Johnson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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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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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. – William H. Seward

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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. – Don Marquis

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Some days are just bad days, thats all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, thats just the way it is! – Dita Von Teese

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. – Plato

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But I now entered on my fifteenth year – a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. – Harriet Ann Jacobs

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