#pine

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

— Euripides

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I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. ↗

— Chris Evans

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I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. ↗

— Linda Evans

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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. ↗

— Susan Faludi

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

— Richard Owen Cambridge

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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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