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“Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.”

Government Happiness Form Law Imagination Liberty Mankind Security Property Contrary Republic Forms Of Government Phantoms Secured Deluded Republicanism

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.”

World Mind May States Happiness Freedom Pleasure Meditation Concepts Contrary Pursuit Noise Bliss Formulas State Of Mind Brutality Searching For Happiness Uninvited

Book:Freedom, Love, and Action

Source: Freedom, Love, and Action

“any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.”

Happiness Common Contrary Pursuit Doomed Pursuit Of Happiness Common Good

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.”

“You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.”

Moments Happiness Given Heaven Felt Family Source Gratitude Pure Deeds Contrary Perpetual Uneasiness

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”

“The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.”

People World Feelings Happiness Time Born Work Results Our Lives One Thing Ought Contrary Vague Full Life

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer