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happiness delight tricks
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. Charles Dickens
happiness kings ambition
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition. Charles Caleb Colton
happiness wine emotional
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
happiness poverty bread
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
happiness clouds broken
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
happiness mistake ambition
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
happiness light sun
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
happiness men views
Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.
happiness mind faces
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
society disease want
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
society facts hints
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. John Roberts
society used states
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. Edith Wharton
society cleaning neighborhood
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. Ed Koch
society might ornaments
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. Charles Lamb
society alive intimacy
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. Arthur Balfour
society
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. J. B. Priestley
society
I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed. Lee Hall
society might firsts
The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society. Boman Irani
politics fervent
Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists. Alan Bradley
politics heroines palin
[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine. Camille Paglia
politics welfare economy
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom. Caspar Weinberger
politics bureaucracy dies
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. Charley Reese
politics world speak
Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth. Charles Krauthammer
politics servant civil-servants
I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates. Billy Joel
politics requirements firsts
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. Dean Acheson
politics natural economy
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price. David Ricardo
politics firsts appearance
Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. David Hume