Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Happiness
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Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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