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 352 HAPPINESS And feel that I am happier than I know. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VIII. L. 282. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Fix'd to no spot is Happiness sincere; ’Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'rywhere; Tis never to be bought, but always free. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Man. | place = Ep. IV. L. 15. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Wynne) Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their happiness; But mutual wants this happiness increase, All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Man. | place = Ep. IV. L. 53. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Le bonheur des mechants comme un torrent s'ecoule. The happiness of the wicked flows away as a torrent. Racine—Athalie. II. 7. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises. George Sand—Handsome Lawrence. Ch. HI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Des Menschen Wille, das ist sein Gliick. The will of a man is his happiness. Schiller—Wallenstein's Lager. VII. 25. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O mother, mother, what is bliss? O mother, what is bale? Without my William what were heaven, Or with him what were hell? Scott. Trans, of a ballad of Burger's. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Mantuanus) HAPPINESS Non potest quisquam beate degere, qui se tantum intuetur, qui omnia ad utilitates suas convertit; alteri vivas oportet, si vis tibi vivere. No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. Seneca—Epistoloe Ad LucUium. XLVni. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! As You Like It. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 47. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell. | author = | work = Henry V. | place = Act II. Sc. 3. L. 6. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Mantuanub}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ye seek for happiness—alas, the day! Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold, Nor in the fame, nor in the envied sway For which, O willing slaves to Custom old, Severe taskmistress! ye your hearts have sold. Shelley—Revolt of Islam. Canto XI. St. 17. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Magnificent spectacle of human happiness. Sydney Smith—America. Edinburgh Review, July, 1824. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. Sydney Smith—Lecture on Benevolent Affections. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Be happy, but be happy through piety. Madame de Staël— Corinne. Bk. XX. Ch. HI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heavens above, And the road below me. Stevenson—The Vagabond. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O terque quaterque beati. O thrice, four times happy they! Vergil—Æneid. I. 94. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart; And makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye. N. P. Whjjs—Saturday Afternoon. St. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = True happiness is to no spot confined. If you preserve a firm and constant mind, 'Tis here, 'tis everywhere. John Huddlestone Wynne—History of Ireland. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Pope}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We're charm'd with distant views of happiness, But near approaches make the prospect less. Thos. "i aiden—Against Enjoyment. L. 23. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = True happiness ne'er entered at an eye; True happiness resides in things unseen. Young—Night Thoughts. Night VIH. L. 1,021. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 352 }}