The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Tennyson
“Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven.”
English poet and Anglican clergyman (d. 1674), author of Centuries of Meditations, first published in 1908.
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