"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." — Thomas Jefferson

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky:

Source: Poems in Two Volumes, My Heart Leaps Up (1807)

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others.

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments, part 1 (1759)

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

Source: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself (1892 edition)

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Source: Ethics, part 5, proposition 42 (1677)

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