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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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. – Irving Babbitt

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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. – 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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it. – Proverb

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. – Logan P. Smith

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There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. – George Washington

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Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours. – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weeks and Works, 1578

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