"Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit." — Edwin Percy Whipple
"Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit."
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Edwin Percy Whipple
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28 Quotes by Edwin Percy Whipple
Edwin Percy Whipple has 28 quotes on this site.
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is…
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius…
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
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Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one…
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Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill…
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it…
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Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
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Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when…
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Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape…
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
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More Felicity Quotes
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one of 116 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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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