Quote by Thomas Traherne
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish

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

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This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys. – Thomas Traherne

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A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. – Thomas Traherne

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them. – Thomas Traherne

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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. – Chinese Proverb

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo

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A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Seneca

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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. – John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863

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