HAPPINESS.
Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere:
'Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'ry where;
'Tis never to be bought, but always free.
Essay on Man, Epistle IV. A. POPE.
We're charmed with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.
Against Enjoyment. T. YALDEN.
For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart:
And makes his pulses fly,
To catch the thrill of a happy voice,
And the light of a pleasant eye.
Saturday Afternoon. N.P. WILLIS.
True happiness ne'er entered at an eye;
True happiness resides in things unseen.
Night Thoughts, Night VIII. DR. E. YOUNG.
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
Essay on Man, Epistle IV. A. POPE.
The spider's most attenuated thread
Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie
On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Night Thoughts, Night I. DR. E. YOUNG.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
Esther. F. QUARLES.