It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You… — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L.… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
