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“After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.”

Source: The School of Life

“The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.”

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Book:Happiness

Source: Happiness

“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”

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Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.”

Happiness Influence Effects Duty

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland”

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Author:Albert Camus

“What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.”

“A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.”

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Book:Works: with a Biographical Memoir

Source: Works: with a Biographical Memoir

“The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.”

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Author:John Lubbock

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Happiness is the natural flower of duty.”

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Book:The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks

Source: The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks

“I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

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Author:Thomas Paine