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Quote by Herbert Spencer
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. – Herbert Spencer

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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is – a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. – Herbert Spencer

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Change
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Herbert Spencer
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. – Herbert Spencer

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Health
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. – Herbert Spencer

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Marriage
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Happiness
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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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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud

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Happiness

Gods children and their happiness are my reasons for being. – Red Skelton

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Happiness

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Happiness

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. – Lewis Grizzard

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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. – Lao Tzu

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Never give advice unless asked. – Proverb

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I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I dont exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship. – Helen Reddy

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