Happy feeling

Happy Quotes — page 285 of 349

Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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“Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.”

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“There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.”

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“We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.”

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“Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.”

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“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.”

Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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“The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”

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“Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.”

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Randy Cohen Writer, Humorist
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“I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.”

Viola Davis Actress, Producer
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“I get so excited when my daughter says something new, which she is doing every day. I can leave the house for a few hours, come back and meet a totally different person. That's very exciting to me.”