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Felicity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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;…
- 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…
- 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,…
- To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,…
- To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any…
- A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.
- The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
More Felicity Quotes
- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his… — Samuel Johnson
- The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
- A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches… — Thomas Carlyle
- It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. — Miguel de Cervantes
- There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. — Logan Pearsall Smith
- How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but… — Catharine Beecher
- Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine,… — William Temple
- There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the… — George Washington