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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.
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Charles Dickens We forge the chains we wear in life.
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Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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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.
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Charles Caleb Colton 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.
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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.
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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.
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Charles Dickens Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.
laughter littles rotten
Charles Spurgeon A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.
laughter believe miracle
Alan Watts There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.
laughter humanity oneself
Alan Watts Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
laughter believe everyday
Alan Watts The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter...
laughter real anxiety
Alan Watts Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
laughter laughing way
Alan Rickman I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
laughter healing loss
Alan Alda In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
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Alan Alda Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Charles Caleb Colton In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
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Charles Dickens Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.
wine men envy
Charles Dickens The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
wine voice broken
Charles Dickens "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
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Alan Rickman My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
wine knowing drunk
Edith Wharton I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.
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Edith Wharton We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!
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David Hyde Pierce Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.
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Athenaeus the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.