William B. Ogden quotes
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“Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.”
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“The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.”
-- William B. Ogden
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“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness”
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”
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“All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.”
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“Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.”
Source : "Working class heroes" by Shirley Dent, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.
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“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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