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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Whatever, Lives

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Nothing, Hard

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Happiness, Find

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba

Same, Last, House

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
Henry David Thoreau

Found, Hollow, Relied

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul Kalam

Happiness, After, Making

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
Donald Trump

Love, Beautiful, Real

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire

Work, Nothing, Place

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling

Life, Fear, Rock

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

Action, Depth, Height

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mind, Again, Mouth

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

Light, Fame, River

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
Orson Welles

Appear, Permanent, Untenable

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali

Try, Works, Necessary

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois

Happiness, Fool, Compassion

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII

Peace, Trust, Equality

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
Newt Gingrich

Future, Down, Proud

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Real, House, Call

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Family, Writing, Friends

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm

Reality, Fantasy, Base

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
Hedy Lamarr

Door, Felt, Key

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck

Business, Book, Writing

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
Alfred A. Montapert

Life, Cannot, Building

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Van Wyck Brooks

Jealousy, True, Find

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Lord Chesterfield

Peace, Wife, Between

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
Pope Paul VI

Beauty, Strength, Strong

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
Damien Hirst

Life, Goal, Actually

I love, love, love that you want to use your debit card. But to keep your credit score solid, you still need to keep a few credit cards and use them at least once every few months.
Suze Orman

Love, Keep, Once

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
Keanu Reeves

Good, Movie, Kung

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