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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen,

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. – Thomas Traherne

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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. – Thomas Traherne

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A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. – Thomas Traherne

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them. – Thomas Traherne

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Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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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. I tend to walk a middle ground. – Paula Cole

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Misery is almost always the result of thinking. – Joseph Joubert

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