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"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

Oliver Goldsmith on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

  • "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

    John Barrymore on Happiness

  • "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

    Dalai Lama on Happiness

  • "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

    Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

  • "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

    Martha Washington on Happiness

  • "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

  • "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

  • "Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

  • "Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

  • "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

  • "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

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