"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

Bergman, Ingrid on happiness
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"Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others."

Bierce, Ambrose on happiness
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"Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers."

Bonnell, John S. on happiness
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"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."

Boone, Daniel on happiness
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"We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet."

Boyd, William on happiness
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"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."

Cohen, Leonard on depression
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"Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."

Guest, Judith on depression
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"The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop."

Hoffer, Eric on depression
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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

Keats, John on depression
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"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."

Kierkegaard, Søren on depression
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"Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it."

Franklin, Benjamin on health
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"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."

Franklin, Benjamin on art
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"There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him."

Franklin, Benjamin on plagiarism   

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

Franklin, Benjamin on planning
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"The first mistake in public business is going into it."

Franklin, Benjamin on politics   

"Applause waits on success."

Franklin, Benjamin on popularity   

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

Franklin, Benjamin on poverty and the poor
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"One today is worth two tomorrows."

Franklin, Benjamin on present
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"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again."

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."

Franklin, Benjamin on relationship
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"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well."

Franklin, Benjamin on reputation
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"Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion."

Franklin, Benjamin on riches
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"Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence."

Franklin, Benjamin on science
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

Franklin, Benjamin on knowledge
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"If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself."

Franklin, Benjamin on service
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"Never confuse motion with action."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

Franklin, Benjamin on books - reading
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"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."

Franklin, Benjamin on physicians
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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"He that can have patience can have what he will."

Franklin, Benjamin on patience
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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance   

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance
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"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."

Franklin, Benjamin on kindness
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"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!"

Franklin, Benjamin on knowledge   

"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense."

Franklin, Benjamin on language
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"Where liberty is, there is my country."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"Necessity never made a good bargain."

Franklin, Benjamin on necessity
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