352 HAPPINESS And feel that I am happier than I know.
| author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VIII. L. 282.
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No eye to watch and no tongue to wound us,
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
Moobe—Come o'er the Sea.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim—The Wise.
Dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet.
Before he is dead and buried no one ought
to be called happy.
Ovid—Metamorphoses. Bk. III. 136.
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| text = <poem>Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and
always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is
inevitable that we never become so.
Blaise Pascal—Thoughts. Ch. V. Sec. I.
Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men
count our felicity and happiness to lie in these
superfluities, and not in those necessary things."
Plutarch—Morals. Vol. II. Of the Love of
Wealth.
| seealso = (See also Holmes under Paradox)
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| text = <poem>Oh happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate'er thy
name;
That something still which prompts th' eternal
sigh,
For which we bear to hve, or dare to die.
Fix'd to no spot is Happiness sincere;
’Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'rywhere;
Tis never to be bought, but always free.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. IV. L. 15.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Wynne)
Heaven to mankind impartial we confess,
If all are equal in their happiness;
But mutual wants this happiness increase,
All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. IV. L. 53.
Le bonheur des mechants comme un torrent
s'ecoule.
The happiness of the wicked flows away as
a torrent.
Racine—Athalie. II. 7.
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have
of it, and by no means in the way the future
keeps its promises.
George Sand—Handsome Lawrence. Ch.
HI.
Des Menschen Wille, das ist sein Gliick.
The will of a man is his happiness.
Schiller—Wallenstein's Lager. VII. 25.
O mother, mother, what is bliss?
O mother, what is bale?
Without my William what were heaven,
Or with him what were hell?
Scott. Trans, of a ballad of Burger's.
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HAPPINESS
Non potest quisquam beate degere, qui se tantum intuetur, qui omnia ad utilitates suas convertit; alteri vivas oportet, si vis tibi vivere.
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own
advantage. Thou must live for another, if
thou wishest to live for thyself.
Seneca—Epistoloe Ad LucUium. XLVni.
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| text = But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into
happiness through another man's eyes!
As You Like It. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 47.
Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is,
either in heaven or in hell.
Ye seek for happiness—alas, the day!
Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold,
Nor in the fame, nor in the envied sway
For which, O willing slaves to Custom old,
Severe taskmistress! ye your hearts have sold.
Shelley—Revolt of Islam. Canto XI. St. 17.
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| text = Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.
Sydney Smith—America. Edinburgh Review, July, 1824.
Mankind are always happier for having been
happy; so that if you make them happy now,
you make them happy twenty years hence by
the memory of it.
Sydney Smith—Lecture on Benevolent Affections.
Be happy, but be happy through piety.
Madame de Staël— Corinne. Bk. XX. Ch.
HI.
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heavens above,
And the road below me.
Stevenson—The Vagabond.
O terque quaterque beati.
O thrice, four times happy they!
Vergil—Æneid. I. 94.
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.
N. P. Whjjs—Saturday Afternoon. St. 1.
True happiness is to no spot confined.
If you preserve a firm and constant mind,
'Tis here, 'tis everywhere.
John Huddlestone Wynne—History of Ireland.
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| text = <poem>We're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.
Thos. "i aiden—Against Enjoyment. L. 23.
True happiness ne'er entered at an eye;
True happiness resides in things unseen.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night VIH. L.
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