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Joseph Addison1672–1719

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison on happiness

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To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 185 (2 October 1711).
- Atheism
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 475 (4 September 1712)
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More about happiness

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss1904–1991
It was when I was happiest that I longed most…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956), Pt. 1, VII (Psyche)
- Beauty
Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you, and be happy.
Anne Frank1929–1945
- Beauty

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