William Cowper: Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!

Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall! — William Cowper

Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!

William Cowper

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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their ple — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The supreme enjoyment is in satisfaction with oneself ; it is in order to deserv — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. — Hosea Ballou
Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face. — Berthold Auerbach
There are two laws discrete Not reconciled, Law for man, and law for thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't — Fernando Pessoa
Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thro — Saadi
Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quæ velis, et quæ sentias dicere licet. — Such being the happiness of the times
He was the God of War. — Napoleon
Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up wit — John Milton
I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural — Charles Darwin