The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vi ne consiste pas á ?tre sans passions: il consiste ? en ?tre le maître.Alfred Tennyson (Lord)
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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de La Bruyere
Absence cools moderate Passions, but inflames violent ones.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
I feel the desire to be with you all the time. Oh, an occasional absence of a week or two is a good thing to give one the happiness of meeting again, but this living apart is in all ways bad. We have had our share of separate life during the four years of war. There is nothing in the small ambition of Congressional life, or in the gratified vanity which it sometimes affords, to compensate for separation from you. We must manage to live together hereafter. I can’t stand this, and will not.
Rutherford B. Hayes
But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
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