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Tag Name "Felicity" (83)

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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
Daniel Boone
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Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
Jean Racine
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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
Thomas Hobbes
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Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.
Gail Carriger
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While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control.
Keri Russell
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Shopping, true feminine felicity!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
Edmund Spenser
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I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die, Felicity bars. If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.
Libba Bray
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He frowns. A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?
Libba Bray
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We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!
Erasmus Darwin
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!
Lydia Sigourney
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Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.
Gail Carriger
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The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.
Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith
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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
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Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?
George Washington
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Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.
Michael Chabon
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There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
George Washington
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I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually.
Greg Grunberg
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Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.
Abdu'l-Bahá
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Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.
Italo Calvino
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