“Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.”
Happy feeling
Happy Quotes — page 277 of 349
“SUNY gives you a world-class education.”
“Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.”
“I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!”
“[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.”
“Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.”
“For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die”
“The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by. As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky.”
“All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.”
“Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.”
“We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.”
“The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.”
“Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.”
“What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.”
“I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.”
“I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.”
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.”
“We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.”
“When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.”
“You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.”