Felicity Quotes
116 quotes by 83 authors
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires…
— Daniel Boone
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
— Samuel Butler
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
— Samuel Johnson
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I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and…
— Teri Hatcher
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
— Charles Lamb
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man,…
— Ben Jonson
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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
— George Washington
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of…
— Catharine Beecher
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Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for…
— William Temple
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Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every…
— George Washington
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There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of…
— George Washington
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
— Seneca the Younger
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life,…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life,…
— Saint Augustine
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