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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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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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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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Ones work usually occupies more than half of ones waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. – Bo Bennett

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. – Lucan

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We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else’s happiness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The poet doesnt invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

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