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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Mikhail Lermontov
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.


Benjamin Franklin
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
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Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.


Marion Milner
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I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.


Noel Gallagher
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Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.
Sean Covey
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
P. T. Barnum
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I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.


James Hillman
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I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
George Kennedy
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.
Glen Hansard
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I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.


Jenni Rivera
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.


Charles Caleb Colton
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.


William Blake
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As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Tags: Good Only Live
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.
Linus Roache
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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius Caesar
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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