Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources - Rev. James Wood


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      Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. Amiel.

      Happiness is only evident to us by deliverance from evil. Nicole.

      Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which 50 penetrates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears. M. de Guérin.

      Happiness is unrepented pleasure. Socrates.

      Happiness lies first of all in health. G. W. Curtis.

      Happiness, like Juno, is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession, deified by those who cannot enjoy her, and despised by those who can. Arliss' Lit. Col.

      Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse. A. Smith.

      Happiness springs not from a large fortune, but temperate habits and simple wishes. Riches increase not by increase of the supply of want, but by decrease of the sense of it—the minimum of it being the maximum of them. Ed.

      Happiness, that grand mistress of ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Arliss' Lit. Col.

      Happiness travels incognita to keep a private 5 assignation with contentment, and to partake of a tête-à-tête and a dinner of herbs in a cottage. Arliss' Lit. Col.

      Happiness, when unsought, is often found, and when unexpected, often obtained; while those who seek her the most diligently fail the most, because they seek her where she is not. Arliss' Lit. Col.

      Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending. Much Ado, ii. 3.

      Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee. Schiller.

      Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions. Goethe.

      Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun 10 brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty. Carlyle.

      Happy he that can abandon everything by which his conscience is defiled or burdened. Thomas à Kempis.

      Happy in that we are not over-happy; / On Fortune's cap we are not the very button. Ham., ii. 2.

      Happy is he who soon discovers the chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. Goethe.

      Happy is that house and blessed is that congregation where Martha still complains of Mary. S. Bern.

      Happy he whose last hour strikes in the midst 15 of his children. Grillparzer.

      Happy is he that is happy in his children. Pr.

      Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes a puppet, who at length can play with it, and amuse himself with what his situation makes his duty. Goethe.

      Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. Hare.

      Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. Emerson.

      Happy is the man who can endure the highest 20 and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. Sen.

      Happy is the man whose father went to the devil. Pr.

      Happy lowly clown! / Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown! 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

      Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Carlyle.

      Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. Carlyle.

      Happy that I can / Be crossed and thwarted 25 as a man, / Not left in God's contempt apart, / With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, / Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize. Browning.

      Happy the man, and happy he alone, / He who can call to-day his own; / He who, secure within, can say, / To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Dryden, after Horace.

      Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself. Cervantes.

      Happy the people whose annals are blank in History's book. Montesquieu.

      Happy thou art not; / For what thou hast not still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgett'st. Meas. for Meas. iii. 1.

      Happy who in his verse can gently steer, / 30 From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. Dryden.

      Hard is the factor's rule; no better is the minister's. Gael. Pr.

      Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see who can pound the longest. Wellington at Waterloo.

      Hard with hard builds no houses; soft binds hard. Pr.

      Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other. Ben. Franklin.

      Hardness ever of hardiness is mother. Cymbeline, 35 iii. 6.

      Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. John Neal.

      Harm watch, harm catch. Pr.

      Hart kann die Tugend sein, doch grausam nie, / unmenschlich nie—Virtue may be stern, though never cruel, never inhuman. Schiller.

      Harvests are Nature's bank dividends. Haliburton.

      Has any man, or any society of men, a truth 40 to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a public meeting, appoint committees, issue prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word, construct or borrow machinery, wherewith to speak it and do it. Without machinery they were hopeless, helpless; a colony of Hindoo weavers squatting in the heart of Lancashire. Carlyle.

      Has patitur pœnas peccandi sola voluntas. / Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, / Facti crimen habet—Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. Juv.

      Has pœnas garrula lingua dedit—This punishment a prating tongue brought on him. Ovid.

      Has vaticinationes eventus comprobavit—The event has verified these predictions. Cic.

      Hassen und Neiden / Muss der Biedre leiden. / Es erhöht des Mannes Wert, / Wenn der Hass sich auf ihn kehrt—The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. Gottfried von Strassburg.

      Hast du im Thal ein sichres Haus, / Dann wolle nie zu hoch hinaus—Hast thou a secure house in the valley? Then set not thy heart


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