When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no m…

William James
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When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in. ✨ Dr. William James (2013). The William James Reader, p.369, Simon and Schuster
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