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Happiness

Peasant Family Singing by Pieter Jacobsz. Duyfhuysen
Prose

Unattainable Happiness

Distance, my friend, is like the future. A dim vastness is spread before our soul;…
By Goethe
Angel defeating a Demon by Giovanbattista Ponchino
Reflections

Virtue Alone

Recommend Virtue to your children; that alone, and not wealth, can ensure happiness. I speak…
By Ludwig van Beethoven
Reflections

How Can He Be Happy That Never Felt Grief?

Among advantages which adversity has, this is not the least, that, a man’s misfortunate days…
By Gerolamo Cardano
Poetry

A Wish

This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt…
By Abraham Cowley
The crucifixion of St Andrew by Mattia Preti
Poetry

Happiness

And we, who have always thought
Of happiness as rising, would feel
The emotions that…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Poetry

Character of a Happy Life

How happy is he born and taught
That serveth not another’s will;
Whose armour is…
By Sir Henry Wotton
Poetry

Lovers of Life

Ego Dominus Tuus Hic
Yet surely there are men who have made their art
Out…
By W. B. Yeats
Poetry

Contentment

I weigh not fortune’s frown or smile;
I joy not much in earthly joys;
I…
By Joshua Sylvester

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