Joy is a heavenward uplift of lifedeep happiness of spirit.

forbear, and reflect whether thou shouldst not find befitting happiness in that which makes the happiness of Heaven and earth.

It would be such a happiness to me!"

But I honestly believe the one chance of happiness for any of us hinges on Patricia and me chucking the whole affair, and bolting.

But whenever you become as populous as we are, and unite the knowledge of real happiness with the practice of virtue, you will understand it.

God gives us life, and God our life preserves; Nay, all our happiness on Him doth rest: Why then should love of God inflame man's breast Less than his lady and the lord he serves?

Despite thyself, O, trust meso shalt thou find happiness at last and Pentavalon an end to all her sorrows.

If you had to walk over red-hot ploughshares to come to him, you would do it; if you could win him a moment's happiness by a lifetime of poverty and misery and degradation, you would do it.

Sing Fou's household consisted of his wife, whom I rarely saw, four small children, and six servants; and here I enjoyed nearly as great a portion of happiness as in any part of my life.

The old man held a sort of state among these poor girls, and took tribute of admiration, as he had taken tribute of life and happiness from daughter and granddaughter.

CHAPTER XXII CONCERNING THE WILES OF WINFRIDA THE FAIR Now in these days did my Beltane know more of joy and come more nigh to happiness than ever in his life before.

On the following Friday, when the coffin was carried into the hall, and placed in its case ready for removal across the Irish Channel, the landing and stairs were filled with patients who had crept there from the wards to see the last of one who had brought so much happiness into their wretched lives.

A grown daughter is an Individual, who should stand on her own feet and make her own happiness without curtailing the happiness of parents.

People talked of the faulty division of wealth; but it was madness to dream of an Utopia, where there would be no more masters but only so many brothers, equal workers and sharers, who would apportion happiness among themselves like a birthday-cake.

A great passion was springing up within him; his one dream now was to dower her richly and seek happiness through her, if indeed he could ever be happy again.

After he had continued ten years at Istakhar, building towns and cities, and diffusing improvement and happiness over the land, he removed his throne into Irán.

I couldn't make my happiness out of someone else's misery.

My work among Thy poor was its own reward, a reward of inward happiness beyond all that earth can giveand now Thou speakest of rewarding me over and above, with I know not what of undeserved bliss.

But you think, darling, I got one minute's happiness like this?" "I'm all right, mommy, only" "I been laying here half the night, Ruby, thinking how I'm a bad mother what thinks only of her own" "No, no, mommy.

And in slumber did I have speech with her in dreams, and a strange happiness about me, and all seeming to be touched by fairy-light, and freed from the sorrow of life.

But oh, how unmingled the triumph, how sincere the joy if, by persevering in a conduct, in which the path of duty is too palpable to be mistaken, propitious fate may rather grant me the happiness after which I aspire, than I be forced, as it were, myself to wrest it from the hands of providence!" Such was the result of this last and decisive interview.

He congratulated them both upon the relation between them, and said he need not wish the young lady happiness in her new home, for he believed Mrs. Delano always created an atmosphere of happiness around her.

He wished to see his charge married, yet he trembled for her happiness under the care of a young nobleman immersed in all the vices of the town.

You have given me more happiness within this last half-hour than I have had since we parted in France.

"That is ...," he explained in the same careless voice, "if we may go on the presumption that you are content to place Juanita's happiness before your own.