Quote#Happiness
Your happiness on the contrary is quite secure because you place it…
Quote byJoseph Black · 1728–1799
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to his Father (1st June 1754).
English (original)
Your happiness on the contrary is quite secure because you place it entirely in making others happy and doing those things to the utmost of your power which you can afterwards reflect upon with satisfaction. I must own your letter had that effect upon me that it made me apply to my work with double eagerness and alacrity with the hopes of being some time what you are at present.
— Joseph Black
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