 | Theodore Ruggles Timby - 1902 - 340 Seiten
...happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire." Addison says : " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." Pope says : "Order is heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are and must be greater than the... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 Seiten
...civilization, and once more cast ourselves, with conscious bent, into the arms of nature. Richard Wagner. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...fountains, fields and meadows : in short, it feels everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
 | 1906 - 578 Seiten
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...every thing it wants within itself, and receives no additions from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the contrary, false happiness loves to be... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 584 Seiten
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. f True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...in the next, from the friendship and conversation V/ / of a few select companions: it loves shade and solitude, and io naturally haunts groves and fountains,... | |
 | Joseph McCabe - 1907 - 476 Seiten
...very religious-looking door — was written, in gold characters, Addison's excellent saying: "True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise." Two of the nuns guarded the door, which was firmly closed at ten every night, and the key was taken... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 Seiten
...do, something to love, and something to hope for. The true happiness is of a retired nature, andan almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.— Steift. It was justly everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 Seiten
...happiness in this life are, something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. The true wealth of the Indies.— There is creative reading...— When the mind is braced by labor and invention ; und in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions ; it loves shade... | |
 | Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - 1905 - 450 Seiten
...illustrations. FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK 'RUE happiness is of a retired nature, an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from tbe enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 428 Seiten
...integrity, — not more than famed For sanctity of manners unden'led." TRUE AND FALSE HAPPINESS. — True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, iields and meadows ; in short, it feels every thing it wants within itself, and receives no addition... | |
 | Earnie Larsen - 1991 - 388 Seiten
...hurry up what can't be hurried. How long does it take to heal? It takes as long as it takes. Happiness arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations ofafezv select companions. —Joseph Addison The dictionary defines happiness as a state... | |
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. 
