Felicity Quotes
116 quotes by 80 authors
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Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the…
— Edward Abbey
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It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
— Plutarch
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
— Edmund Spenser
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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
— Margaret Cavendish
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It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace,…
— Edward Gibbon
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The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
— Robert Browning
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Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a…
— Italo Calvino
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
— Samuel Johnson
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy…
— John Dryden
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
— Josef Pieper
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The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious,…
— Edith Wharton
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All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the…
— George Washington
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Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is…
— Khalil
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Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
— Thomas Browne
Who Wrote These Felicity Quotes
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