Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft
Ermattet endlich. The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.</poem>
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity to make or find.
Now happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.
And there is ev'n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid.
Fuge magna, licet sub paupere tecto
Reges et regum vita procurrere amicos.
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be
more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy.
Non possidentem multa vocaveris
Recte beatum; rectius occupat
Nomen beati, qui Deorum
Muneribus sapienter uti,
Duramque callet pauperiem pati,
Pejusque leto flagitium timet.
You will not rightly call him a happy man
who possesses much; he more rightly earns the
name of happy who is skilled in wisely using
the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard
poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than
death.
Horace-Carmws. LX. Bk. 4. 9. 45.
That Action is best which procures the greatest
Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that
worst, which, in like manner, occasions misery.
Frances. Hutcheson—Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue.
(1725) Treatise II. Sec. 3. An Inquiry
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Upon the road to Romany
It's stay, friend, stay!
There's lots o' love and lots o' time
To linger on the way;
Poppies for the twilight,
Roses for the noon,
It's happy goes as lucky goes,
To Romany in June.
Wallace Irwin—From Romany to Home.
Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life. (1766)
Ducimus autem
Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitse,
Nee jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
Juvenal—(Satires. XII. 20.
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| text = On n'est jamais si heureux, ni si malheureux,
qu'on se l'imagine.
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as
we suppose ourselves to be.
La Rochefoucauld—Maximes.
A sound Mind in a sound Body, is a short but
full description of a happy State hrthis World.
Locee—Thoughts Concerning Education.
To be strong
Is to be happy!
| author = Longfellow
| work = Christus. The Golden Leoend.
Pt.H. L. 731.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are
colorless when unbroken.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Kavanagh. Ch. XIII.
Happiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell—Happiness.
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it,
We are happy now because God wills it.
| author = Lowell
| work = The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude
to Pt. I. L. 61.
Sive ad felices vadam post funera campos,
Seu ferar ardentem rapidi Phlegethontis ad undam,
Nee sine te felix ero, nee tecum miser unquam.
Heaven would not be Heaven were thy soul
not with mine, nor would Hell be Hell were our
souls together.
Baptista Mantuanus—Eclogue, ni. 108.
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| text = <poem>Neminem, dum adhuc viveret, beatum dici
debere arbitrabatur.
He (Solon) considered that no one ought to
be called happy as long as he was alive.
Valerius Maximus. Bk. VII. 2. Ext. 2.
Same in Sophocles—CEdipus Rex. End'
Herodotus—Clio. 32. Solon to Crodsus.'
Repeated by Crossus to Cyrus when on
' his funeral pyre, thus obtaining his pardon.
(see also Ovid, also Æschylus under Death)
