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Worldly wealth is the Devils bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. – Robert Burton

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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning loves the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. – Robert Burton

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I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good days work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. – Henri Matisse

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I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. – John Belushi

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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. – Ethel Percy Andrus

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