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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
believe book writing
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it. Charles Caleb Colton
believe self denial
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. Charles Caleb Colton
believe half literature
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. Charles Caleb Colton
believe hallucinations scrooge
There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning Charles Dickens
believe remember cry
I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all. Charles Dickens
believe soul done
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Charles Dickens
believe echoes sound
It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down. Charles Dickens
believe adequate earth
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. Charles Dickens
believe long people
It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in. Charles Dickens
long vengeance retribution
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. Charles Dickens
long wit long-time
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. Charles Dickens
long trials hardship
You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope. Charles Stanley
long might serving-god
I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might. Charles Spurgeon
long people giving
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one. Charles Spurgeon
long eternity endless
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless! Charles Spurgeon
long doe christ
He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet. Charles Spurgeon
long care doe
Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there. Charles Spurgeon
long effort mind
Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen. Alan Watts