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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation w

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. – Thomas Jefferson

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. – Giraldus Cambrensis

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Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. – Andrew Weil

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If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – John Mason Brown

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