"Joy and sadness come by turns."
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"A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it."
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"Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?"
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"They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost."
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"Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy."
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"Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy."
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"The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation."
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"Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy."
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"Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche"
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"For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy."
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"From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens."
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"Religion without joy-it is no religion."
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"What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness."
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"To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy."
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"To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be able to enter into the problems and the joys of all, to understand all, to be all things to all."
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"You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you."
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"Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise."
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"We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can."
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"Joy is being fully aware of reality."
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"It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god."
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