Quote by Irving Babbitt
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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Society
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. – Irving Babbitt

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Failure
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The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality…. Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. – Irving Babbitt

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Love is trembling happiness. – Khalil Gibran

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Happiness

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesnt promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. – Patricia Heaton

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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. – Anna Pavlova

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Happiness

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When you are not at hand to kiss away my fears I cannot choose but be wretched. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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You can be young without money but you cant be old without it. – Tennessee Williams

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