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felicities
«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.»
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
| About:
Disappointment,
Heart,
Suffering
| Keywords:
disappointment, earthly, extremities, extremity, felicities, felicity, revealed, trained
«Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else-felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance-is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.»
Author: Louis Nizer
| About:
Preparation
| Keywords:
felicities, felicity, improvisational, satellite, satellites, The Be, thorough, trial
«The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
afflictions, describing, felicities, ghost, Holy Ghost, labored, Solomon
«It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accrue, accrued, accrues, description, felicities, injury, instances, material body, motion, no ball, rapid, rapids, set in motion, slightly, successively
«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.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
attain, caprices, felicities, felicity, fortunate, heeded, heeds, satisfy
«It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Keywords:
allay, allayed, allaying, felicities, felicity, mixture, tempered
«They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
conjugal, fascinating, felicities, felicity, flaunt, flaunted, flaunting
«There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
distinguishes, felicities, felicity
«A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfection and riches of the mind.»