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happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.
Alice Hegan Rice
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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
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Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.
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we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.
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Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!
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There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.
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Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.
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The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.
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What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.
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Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
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Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.
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Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
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The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.
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Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.
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The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.
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It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.
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even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
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Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.
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The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
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All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.
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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
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