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Quote by Norman Douglas
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. – Charles Sumner

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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. – James F. Cooper

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I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really arent huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. – Paula Cole

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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. – William Law

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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. – Bret Harte

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I dont have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. – Jack Nicholson

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