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Happiness is the measure of success. That, and perhaps mindful gratitude. If one is truly happy, with oneself and one's life; if one is frequently if not constantly aware of savoring the joys and bitternesses of this world...then one is successful.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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