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I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of...more