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title: "7 Human Felicity Quotes by 5 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Human Felicity quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Human Felicity sayings and thoughts."
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> [To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-strive-with-difficulties-and-to-conquer-them-is-the-highest-human/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [“Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/human-felicity-is-produc-d-not-so-much-by-great-pieces-of-good/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/a-tavern-chair-is-the-throne-of-human-felicity/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/never-lose-sight-of-the-fact-that-all-human-felicity-lies-in-man-s/)

[Marquis de Sade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marquis-de-sade/)

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> [If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-sensuality-were-happiness-beasts-were-happier-than-men-but-human/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ouida/love-the-one-supreme-unceasing-source-of-human-felicity-the-one-sole/)

[Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ouida/)

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> [Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/human-felicity-is-produced-not-as-much-by-great-pieces-of-good/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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