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28 quotesNow and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Happiness
Guillaume Apollinaire
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Light
Matthew Arnold
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Engagement
Lord Byron
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Moderation
Marcus T. Cicero
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
Life and Living
William Cowper
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The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
Idleness
William Cowper
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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Truth
Clarence Darrow
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Science and Scientists
Benjamin Disraeli
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Enthusiasm
Desiderius Erasmus
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Philosophers and Philosophy
William James
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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Cinema
Derek Jarman
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
Taxes and Taxation
John Maynard Keynes
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He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
Want
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Religion
Harriet Martineau
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Golf is the pursuit of the infinite.
Golf
Jim Murray
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Seduction
Camille Paglia
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Argument
Alexander Pope
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It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Mystery
Antoine Rivarol
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Teachers and Teaching
George Bernard Shaw
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Happiness
C(harles) P(ercy) Snow
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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Pursuit
Laurence Sterne
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The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
Purpose
S. G. Tallentyre
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A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
Integrity
Source Unknown
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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.
Happiness
Source Unknown
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun