A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were fascinating… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? — George Washington Copy Share Image
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss, Gives and receives all bliss,-- fullest when most Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts. — Rumi Copy Share Image
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
