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They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude
William Wordsworth1770–1850I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)In context
- Thinking
God’s in his heaven⁠—
All’s right with the world!
Robert Browning1812–1889Pippa’s Song (1841)In context
- God
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse⁠—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness⁠—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyam1048–1131The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)In context
- Love
- Poetry
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Remember (1862)In context
- Advice
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Robert Frost1874–1963Birches (1915)In context
- Nature
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on⁠—on⁠—and out of sight.
Siegfried Sassoon1886–1967Everyone Sang (1919)In context
- Freedom
But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Madame Bovary (1857), Part II, Chapter FifteenIn context
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Jules Verne1828–1905Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Love
Therefore wait to see life’s ending ere thou count one mortal blest;
Wait till free from pain and sorrow he has gained his final rest.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Life & Death
Of happiness the chiefest part
Is a wise heart
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Wisdom
When thus I hail the Moment flying:
“Ah, still delay⁠—thou art so fair!”
Then bind me in thy bonds undying,
My final ruin then declare!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene IV, spoken by FaustIn context
- Time
We were very tired, we were very merry⁠—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Edna St. Vincent Millay1892–1950Recuerdo (1919)In context
What a lark! What a plunge!
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 1In context
- Life & Death
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience⁠—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane Austen1775–1817Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XIXIn context
- Hope
I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter XIIIn context
- Wisdom