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• A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

  Felicity Huffman

  Winning, Just Saying, Just Sayin

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• There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Men, Age, Sides

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Society, Faces

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.83, GENERAL PRESS

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• A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.

  Coventry Patmore

  Fruition, Too Much, Moments

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

  Marquis de Sade

  Lying, Mean, Men

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Disappointment, Ambition, Wheels

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)”

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• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

  George Meredith

  Duty, Possession, Obligation

  'The Egoist' (1879) ch. 14

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• Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Care

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  The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

  Francis Bacon

  Jobs, Affliction, Ghost

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

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• How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

  Catharine Beecher

  Marriage, Disappointment, Heart

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.211

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• The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Breaking Away, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.3

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• Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.

  Samuel Johnson

  Church, Together, Atoms

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.198

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• Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Passion, Kissing, Heaven

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Curiosity, Wickedness

  Robert Browning, Ian Jack, Margaret Smith, Rowena Fowler (2004). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”, p.122, Oxford University Press

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• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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• the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!

  Frances Wright

  Lying, Ignorance, Dark

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• Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.

  Norm MacDonald

  Happiness, Disappointment, Inward

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• Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.

  Francois Rabelais

  Blessed, Men, Feet

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• Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Envy, Objects

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• Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.

  Michael Chabon

  Age, Matter, Golden

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.325, Random House

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• Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Country, Doe, Makers

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• Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wise, Plato, Law

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gustave Le Bon, Charles Mackay, Wilfred Trotter, Everett Dean Martin (2017). “WHAT IS MOB MENTALITY? - 8 Essential Books on Crowd Psychology: Psychology of Revolution, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Instincts of the Herd, The Social Contract, A Moving-Picture of Democracy...”, p.252, e-artnow

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• Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

  Libba Bray

  Angel, Rebel, Wonder

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• That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

  Robert Blair

  Real, Heart, Knowledge

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