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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.


Joseph Addison

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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
SWEDISH PROVERB Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
CICERO The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...
MARTHA WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings ar...
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings ar...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far strong...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!
RUTVIK OZA The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
SHARON SALZBERG I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far strong...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and mis...
BLAISE PASCAL I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dis...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half
FRANCIS BACON SR. In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own se...
MAHAVIRA Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. ...
RED SKELTON Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. ...
SIMONE WEIL By driving an optimal inventory mix, our multi-echelon technology insures customer service and impro...
JOSEPH SHAMIR This transaction strengthens our balance sheet and improves our return on assets.
LARRY MONTGOMERY It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentl...
JOSEPH ADDISON To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded...
SIMONE WEIL Our true happiness is determined by our depth and quality of our relationships.
ANIL GUPTA Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.
DAVID MITCHELL Learning improves our imagination.Experience increases our creativity.
KOWSALAPATHY ...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we...
MICHELLE MORAN It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.
THOMAS S. MONSON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Our happiness is determined by the quality and depth of our relationships.
ANIL GUPTA FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and s...
AMBROSE BIERCE Our manufacturing strategy execution continues to be flawless. The increased capacity provided by Fa...
DIRK MEYER By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also
THOMAS BROWNE SR. I would try to find joy despite the necessary work of grieving, and I knew full well that work was e...
ELIZABETH BERG I felt my aloneness like a coat. You think you get used to death in the dying. But after the dying i...
ELIZABETH BERG No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust ex...
DOROTHY ALLISON I was in love and love died and the pain you've left isn't pain I can see myself having the strength...
ADAM SILVERA Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also lear...
MARTHA WASHINGTON The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to...
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MIRIAM NELSON I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Chris is a focused and prepared athlete. He is a welcome addition to our team and improves our overa...
LARS TIFFANY ...we, the goths, do know how death, depression, despair, grief, misery and sorrow feels.
OUTCAST ANGEL I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a...
EDWARD GIBBON I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by...
EDWARD GIBBON Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.
WYLIE R. WEEKS Overcoming all obstacles improves us, develops our natural ability and makes us stronger
SUNDAY ADELAJA The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered lov...
BRADLEY CHICHO Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Sinc...
HANNAH MORE Sometimes the joys of our youth do not translate to joys in adulthood and it’s hard to release them...
LAURA MONCUR We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we creat...
ORSON WELLES Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie ve...
ALBERT EINSTEIN We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KAHLIL GIBRAN We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRAN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our...
CHARLES DARWIN The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is n...
CHARLES DARWIN The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys.
BARRY C. FORBES Joseph
Voilà c'que c'est, mon vieux Joseph
Que d'avoir pris la plus jolie
Par...
GEORGES MOUSTAKI Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we w...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Grieving is an expression of gratitude, and that expression doesn't have to be rushed.
CAROLYN WELLS I look forward to continued success of our racing program as our racetrack improves its product, phy...
BILL FASY What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and...
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and...
ROBERT E. LEE Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
LORD ESSEX Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind
LORD ESSEX It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,
like freefalling to earth without a p...
LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO People create their own happiness and also cause their own misery
DEE COLONESE When you lose a child, you grieve once because you have lost her, when you are barren, you grieve ev...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.
The only thing th...
DEAN KOONTZ I feel time beginning to slow, until the last of him is grey powder on the sea and time stops altoge...
SOPHIE HARDCASTLE I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to g...
CHRISTINA RASMUSSEN Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given; Whose lenient sorrow fi...
UNKNOWN The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS FRIENDSHIP is an exercise worth performing especially when you are tired.
JECON B. NADELA Love and Friendship fit well into our recent societal practice of re-gifting. Just be sure to keep s...
RICHARD LYLES A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand
KAHLIL GIBRAN My pride is my comrades, my friends!
SAWADA TSUNAYOSHI ...while finding true love was one of the most splendid things that could happen to you in life, fin...
FéLIX J. PALMA People are opportunities. The gift is in the interaction and the connection with another person, whe...
COLLEEN SEIFERT Dia ada di sisimu setiap kali kau membutuhkannya, tapi apa kau ada di sisinya saat dia paling membut...
WINNA EFENDI Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
JANE AUSTEN Thank goodness for best friends. For true friends, the ones who love you no matter what.
LAURA MCNEILL What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.
MELINA MARCHETTA Often we wonder in our grief what is gained by our belief? Although night, and morning we pray, stil...
EDGAR A. GUEST This diversity of misery and joy is no more than excited neurons in the skull.
YAMIN RASHEED I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned...
MARTHA WASHINGTON We are the Accumulation of All our Experiences. The Richness and Happiness of our Lives is determine...
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JOSEPH ADDISON What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...
JOSEPH ADDISON True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, fr...
JOSEPH ADDISON The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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