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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Savage Landor
Happiness, Happy, Wish

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor
Happiness, Inner Peace, Happy And Contented

Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

Walter Savage Landor
Happiness, Men, Air
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Walter Savage Landor
Happiness, Men, Joy
Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.17

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