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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

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I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage e...more

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As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much ...more

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St. John,” I said, “I think you are al­most wicked to talk so. I am dis­posed to be as con­tent as a queen, and you try to stir me up to rest­less­nes...more

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You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they...more

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Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart’s blo...more

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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life...more

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. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

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The hopes that, in my own heart sown,And cherished by such sun and rain,As Joy and transient Sorrow shed,Have ripened to a harvest there:

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The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, ...more

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I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be h...more

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Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.