Happiness is a thing to be practiced like the violin.

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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows how much he has still to

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Earth and sky woods and fields lakes and rivers the mountain and the sea are excellent schoolmaster

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence and to suspend our judgment when

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Rest is not idleness and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day listening to t

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

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    Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

    Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

    Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

    Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

    Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect, but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

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