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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.
hate envy coward
Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
hate hatred pity
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
hate pride men
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.
hate air giving
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.
hate half world
There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.
hate men love-hate
Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
hate anger racism
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
hate men thinking
Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed. Charles Spurgeon
hate waffles managers
The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that. Alan Pardew
doe authorship command
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
doe helping praying
If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
doe christ please
If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.
doe convinced knows
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe. Aiden Wilson Tozer
doe way holy
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
doe easy hard
God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
doe lines matter
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? Chris Bohjalian
doe absence
Absence of failure does not constitute success. Chris Alexander
doe happy-endings
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending. Chita Rivera