Quote by Joseph Addison
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and no

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Joseph Addison

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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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Money cant buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while youre being miserable. – Clare Boothe Luce

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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. – Joseph Roux

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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