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st bounds whereof we know not.--_Locke._ There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness.--_Byron._ Philosophical happiness is to want little; civil or vulgar happiness is to want much, and to enjoy much.--_Burke._ How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour.--_Young._ Plenteous joys, wanton in fullness.--_Shakespeare._ Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.--_Arsene Houssaye._ For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.--_Mme. de Girardin._ The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.--_George Eliot._ The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.--_Quarles._ The use we make of happiness gives us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.--_Rousseau._ Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.--_J. Petit Senn._ In regard to the affairs of mortals, there is nothing happy throughout.--_Euripides._ ~Hardship.~--The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food,--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.--_George Eliot._ ~Haste.~--Let your haste commend your duty.--_Shakespeare._ The more haste ever the worst speed.--_Churchill._ Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of dispatch and skill; but neither of them ever learn their master's trade.--_Colton._ All haste implies weakness.--_George MacDonald._ ~Hatred.~--We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.--_Colton._ Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.--_Beecher._ Love is rarely a hypocrite. But hate! how detect, and how guard against it. It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties whilst it favors its disguise; for civilization increases the number of contending interests, and refinement renders more susceptible to the least irritation the cuticle of self-love.--_Bulwer-Lytton._ Hatred is like fire--it makes ev
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