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Quote by Lafcadio Hearn
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a grea

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved. – Lafcadio Hearn

Other quotes by Lafcadio Hearn

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Poetry
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Lafcadio Hearn
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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave ones literary education very incomplete. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Education
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Lafcadio Hearn
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Poetry
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Lafcadio Hearn
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Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldnt separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. – Donna Rice

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. – Immanuel Kant

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Happiness

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things. – Bennett Miller

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Happiness

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. Shes happy, shes thriving, shes full of self-confidence. I tell her shes beautiful every day before I send her off to school. – Lynn Johnston

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Happiness

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My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But Im still around. – John Wooden

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good

I think Im becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose Ill always feel slightly more at home on stage. Its more of an actors medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you. – Michael Sheen

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We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. – Paulo Coelho

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Your hugs and kisses are like the stars that light up my life when things get dark. – Author Unknown

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Hugs