Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Happiness
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
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Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
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It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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