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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 care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.»
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
| About:
Disappointment,
Heart,
Suffering
| Keywords:
disappointment, earthly, extremities, extremity, felicities, felicity, revealed, trained
«Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit»
«A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion»
Author: Robert Chapman
| About:
Happiness,
Quotations
| Keywords:
felicity, intrusion, intrusions, justifying, pun, quotation, unsought, welcomed
«Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
felicity
«In a drear-nighted December, / Too happy, happy tree, / Thy branches ne'er remember / Their green felicity.»
«It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Keywords:
allay, allayed, allaying, felicities, felicity, mixture, tempered
«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; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.»
«If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Sensuality
| Keywords:
felicity, human flesh, in the flesh, lodged, sensuality
«A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfection and riches of the mind.»
«A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.»
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