#happines

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

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You are always responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel. ↗

— Robert Tew

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. ↗

— John Harrigan

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ↗

— Harry Harrison

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well. ↗

— Colin Hay

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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! ↗

— William Hazlitt

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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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