Happiness Quote by Sarah Josepha Hale

“It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.”

Sarah Josepha Hale

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The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

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Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!

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A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

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Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.

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Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people…The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render…

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The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

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There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

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Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest…

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... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

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There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with…

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self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the…

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