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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ↗

— William Feather

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What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring? ↗

— Richard Owen Cambridge

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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ↗

— Leslie Caron

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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ↗

— Johnny Carson

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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. ↗

— Nick Cave

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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. ↗

— Euripides

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