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Happy is the country which has no history, and happier still is that musical comedyabout which one can find nothing to say.
Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
But if marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, that there are so few happy marriages? Now in answer to this, is it not to be wondered that so few succeed, we should rather be surprized to find so manydo, considering how imprudently menengage, the motive they act by, and the very strange conduct they observe throughout.
I have been very happyserving in a state of life to which I had never expected to be called.
Sob, heavy world, Sob as you spin Mantled in mist, remote from the happy.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it; but if they think with themselves what other men thinkof them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy.
She's private to herself, and best of knowledge Whom she will make so happy as to sigh for.
Heureux, qui comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage, Ou comme cestuy la' qui conquit la toison, Et puis est retourne , plein d'usage et raison, Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son a" ge! Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has taken a wondrous journey Or has won the Golden Fleece, And then returns home wise and useful To live in his homeland the rest of his days.
Lo, children are an heritage of the L: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Beatus vir qui timet Dominum, in mandatis ejus volet nimis! Happy is the man who fears the Lord, who is only too willing to follow his orders.
Nam in omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum est genus infortunii, fuisse felicem. In all adversity of fortune, the most wretched kind is once to have been happy. 138
If you are as happy, my dear Sir, on entering this house as I am on leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in the country.
Youask ifthey werehappy.Thisisnot a characteristicof a European. To be contentedthat's for the cows.
Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery. 252
Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit; But Fortune, that has made a mistress of me, Has thrust me out to the wide world, unfurnish'd Of falsehood to be happy.
Happy, happy, happy, pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair.
I die happy.
Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.
How happy I could be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during whichthe conditionof thehumanrace was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
and Ireally hopeno white person ever has causetowrite about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
The world owes all its onward impulse to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Well, I've had a happy life.
So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, thanthemanwho has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Then the world seemed none so bad, And I myself a sterling lad; And down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.
Le dix-neuvie' me sie' cle est grand, mais le vingtie' me sera heureux. Thenineteenth century isgreat, butthetwentiethwill be happy.
Faster and faster it rolled, with me running after it bent low, gritting my teeth, and I found myself doubled over and rolling down the street head over heels, one complete somersault after another like a bagel and strangely happy with myself.
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
I've been to the mountain top. I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land.I may not get there with you, but Iwant you to know tonight that we as a people will get to thepromised land.So,I'mhappy tonight.Mine eyeshave seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Qu'il est difficile d'e" tre content de quelqu'un! How difficult it is to be happy with someone!
Si la vie est mise rable, elle est pe nible a' supporter; si elle est heureuse, il est horrible de la perdre. L'un revient a' l'autre. If life ismiserable, it is difficultto endure; if it ishappy, it is horrible to lose.They come to the same thing.
Il y a une espe' ce de honte d'e" tre heureux a' la vue de certaines mise' res. There is a type of shame which comes from being happy at another's distress.
On n'est jamais si malheureux qu'on croit, ni si heureux qu'on espe' re. One is never as unhappyas one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Simply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness,and youwill likely behappymuchofthetime.
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness Man, then, can not be happy through science buttoday he canmuch less be happy without it.
Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secretthe only wisdom ever to be attained.
Lever matin n'est point bonheur; Boire matin est le meilleur. Getting up in the morning does not make you happy; Drinking in the morning is the best.
This is the happy warrior, This is he.
Vous savez qu'on doit se sentir heureux.Tous les vrais e crivains ont e prouve ce sentiment. Quand on ne l'e prouve pas, je suis oblige de vous en avertir, c'est mauvais signe. You know that one should feel happy. All thetrue writers have experienced this feeling.When one does not experience it, I am obliged to tell you that it is a bad sign.
Was man auch sagen mag, der glu« cklichsteAugenblick des Glu« c klichen ist doch der seines Einschlafens wie der unglu« cklichste des Unglu« cklichen der seines Erwachens. Whatever we may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is that of his falling asleep, just as the unhappiest moment of the unhappy man is that of his awakening.
Es gibt nur einen Irrtum, und es ist der, dass wir dasind, um glu« cklich zu sein. There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
Thosewhotalk most abouttheblessings of marriageand the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the claim were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would flyasunder.Youcan't havetheargument both ways.Ifthe prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? What ignorance of pain? 784
You will see Coleridgehe who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, through its own internal lighting blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls You will see Huntone of those happy souls Which are the salt of the earth, and without whom This world would smell like what it isa tomb.
Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy When I am happy I live and despise writing For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting.
Thou has been called,O Sleep! the friend of Woe, But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
No one can be perfectly free until all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
And you have only to look these happy couples in the face, to see they have never been in love, or in hate, or in any other high passion all their days.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Aboutthelilting houseand happyasthegrasswasgreen.
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Twickenham is one of those happy places which is not burdened with a history. 858
All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
Happy those early days when I Shined in my Angel-infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse of His bright face. When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity.
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Eisenhower hasa magic in American politics that is peculiarly his: he makes people happy.
Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
Happy Days are Here Again.
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