Newell Dwight Hillis Quotes

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

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• Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

  

  Newell Dwight Hillis
  • Happiness
  • Duty
  • Medicine