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Happiness.

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01c. 1829 AD

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Thomas B. Macaulay / quote

02c. 1820 AD

Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's.

W. M. Praed / quote

03c. 1844 AD

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

04c. 1809 AD

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

05c. 1809 AD

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

06c. 1809 AD

I am going a long way With these thou seëst—if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)— To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

07c. 1809 AD

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

08c. 1809 AD

Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

09c. 1809 AD

And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

10c. 1809 AD

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow!

Alfred Tennyson / quote

11In print by 1905 AD

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher (Now Mrs. Carney) / quote

12c. 1842 AD

For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, And makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice And the light of a pleasant eye.

Nathaniel P. Willis / quote

13c. 1817 AD

I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me; If my bark sinks, 't is to another sea.

William Ellery Channing / quote

14c. 1855 AD

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

James Russell Lowell / quote

15c. 1852 AD

Happy am I; from care I 'm free! Why ar' n't they all contented like me?

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

16c. 445 BC

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Euripides / quote

17In print by 1905 AD

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publius Syrus / maxim

18In print by 1905 AD

How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!

Publius Syrus / maxim

19c. 83 AD

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only."

Plutarch / quote

20c. 83 AD

Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."

Plutarch / quote

21c. 60 AD

Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.

Epictetus / quote

22c. 150 AD

Remember this,—that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

23c. 150 AD

A man's happiness,—to do the things proper to man.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

24c. 150 AD

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote