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happiness money business
Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
happiness law-of-attraction chains
Charles Dickens We forge the chains we wear in life.
happiness delight tricks
Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
happiness kings ambition
Charles Caleb Colton 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.
happiness poverty bread
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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 men views
Charles Caleb Colton 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.
nice being-nice sometimes
Alain Robert Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.
nice character play
Alan Alda I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.
nice nasty
Al Neuharth Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.
nice character differences
Edward Gibbon The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.
nice two cocktails
Dean Cain Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.
nice character actors
David Twohy Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.
nice cake eggs
David Walliams In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.
nice believe people
David Hyde Pierce Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.
nice people nice-people
David Brooks The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.