#rejoice

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune. ↗

— Aeschylus

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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. ↗

— Plautus

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Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ↗

— Eleonora Duse

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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. ↗

— William Godwin

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It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes the sunshine out of their life, the joy out of their heart, the song out of their mouth. But the reverse of this is the truth. No other one in the world has such secrets of joy as has the Christian. Christ teaches his followers to rejoice. He bids them rejoice even in sorrow and trial. ↗

— J.R. Miller

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As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying. ↗

— Gregg Allman

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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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