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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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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. – Thomas Traherne

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Innocence
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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Fathers palace and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. – Thomas Traherne

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Morning
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. – Thomas Traherne

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Happiness
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Happiness

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Happiness

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

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Happiness

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Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. – Cat Stevens

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