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Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

Holiness not happiness is the chief end of man.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above and that all people may be one people.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work a great head.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.

Not life but good life is to be chiefly valued.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation but deeds can be done only for God.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

The dupe of friendship and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

There is the fear common to all English-only speakers that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise you know why not just come out and say it?

The clan is nothing more than a larger family with its patriarchal chief as the natural head and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

My family is from the South and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with like my great-aunts who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

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