Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. From LearnThat.org. [Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).]
Noun, : marital felicity. ,felicity of expression. ,the many felicities of the poem. From Dictionary.com.
Its force, its felicity is in its reach toward the ineffable. From Wordnik.com. [Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The greatness of this future felicity is declared and illustrated. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
But human felicity is short and uncertain; a second marriage brought upon him so much disquiet, as, for. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
I am convinced that felicity is not confined to any particular station, or condition in life; yet methinks some are better calculated to afford it to me, than others. From Wordnik.com. [The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact] Reference
In this seat of felicity is every enjoyment which fancy can form, or friendship, with affluence, bestow; but still my mind frequently returns to the happy shades of my nativity. From Wordnik.com. [The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact] Reference
His felicity was a closed circle, a wall of eternal ice. From Wordnik.com. [The lost word; a Christmas legend of long ago,] Reference
Men with pistol facility and word felicity die by the pistol. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Cakap Tak Serupa Bikin] Reference
So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shewn to be very insignificant. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765] Reference
We will meet when I claim you in the face of day, without the sense of stolen felicity, which is a charm to common-place minds. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference
Would this be a desirable state? would it be that from which humanity has the best founded prospect of that felicity, which is the desired object of his research?. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
There is no kind of felicity that is not engulfed in the felicity of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Every kind of felicity and auspiciousness becomes theirs in consequence of that intelligence with which they are born. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
'felicity' depends not simply on the 'matter of felicity' or the stimulus, but also on the sensibility to felicity which is necessarily limited. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
As a result, the "felicity" of a performative speech act, such as the minister's "I pronounce you man and wife," can never be firmly known, predicted, or confirmed. From Wordnik.com. [Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community] Reference
Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by rule. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays] Reference
That dissociation is certainly a kind of felicity, but then it differs from the felicity of Emancipation, which is everlasting, and which I is not experienced in the gross body. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
He who does this, restraining his senses the while and filled with cheerfulness, succeeds in attaining to that felicity which is enjoyed by kine (and which kine alone can confer). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Truly the highest felicity is mine. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference
This noble purpose gives birth to felicity which is in itself grand, inexhaustible, and eternal. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
Wishing you every kind of felicity, we have the honor to be, with the highest esteem, &c.B. FRANKLIN. From Wordnik.com. [The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I] Reference
One may see even a kind of felicity in his death, falling exactly on the completion of his seventy-seventh year. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference
Death at length overtakes him, but it is before he is weary of his bootless chase of that complete felicity which is forever on the wing. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy in America — Volume 2] Reference
The circumstances were eminently conducive to the felicity which is derivable from repose, and thus admirably suited to the tastes of La Certe. From Wordnik.com. [The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains] Reference
A gift of food unto one that is toil-worn and hungry, attains to that region of supreme felicity which is the Self-born's own. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Christianity; from poverty, nakedness and want to plenty and felicity. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
From the depths of despair the penitent passed to a state of serene felicity. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
George Sand is at the height of felicity; she takes a little vengeance on her friend. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
Comfort and domestic felicity; a hen roosting shows domestic annoyance and money worries. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
As we cannot conceive of the felicity of eternal joy, so we cannot conceive of the loss of it. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Schools and leisure and wealth are useful, but they are not indispensable either to felicity or to honor. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
We should have felicity at home instead of running after it to balls and crushes, where it is never to be found. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is our peculiar felicity to be altogether unconnected with the causes which produce this menacing aspect elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Such is our peculiar felicity that there is not a part of our Union that is not particularly interested in preserving it. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
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