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Dinah Craik on Thanksgiving

1826–1887 England

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Happiness is not an end — it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

The only way to make people good, is to make them happy.

A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.

A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water.

A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dinah Craik (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.