"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow."
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"The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders."
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"There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun."
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"The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it."
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"The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures."
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"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which makes man August in the eyes of men) have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling com passion as the common inheritance of us all."
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"The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms."
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"Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old."
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"[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!"
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"Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness."
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"For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day."
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"What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease."
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"Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist."
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"The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel."
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"Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd."
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"Where there is love, there is joy."
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"Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love."
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"Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."
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"Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys."
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"A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever."
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