“True love is timid, as it knew its worth,
And that such happiness is scarce for earth.”
The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)
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“True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.”
Cynthia's Revels (1600), Act III, scene ii
Sir Hugo's Choice, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.”
Source: Fables
"Castles in the Air"
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1970)
Context: And if she asks you why,
You can tell her that I told you
That I'm tired of castles in the air.
I've got a dream I want the world to share,
And castle walls just lead me to despair.Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky,
A dream come true, I'll live there till I die.
I'm asking you to say my last goodbye.
The love we knew ain't worth another try.
“That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 5.
The Elements of True Piety (c. 1677), The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) http://books.google.com/books?id=oFoCY3xJ8nkC&dq edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 189
Denn das Leben ist wert, dass man es lebt. Das ist nicht wahr, was die Müden und Überlebten sagen. Wir sind nicht in diese Welt gesetzt, um zu leiden und zu sterben. Wir haben hier eine Mission zu erfüllen.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)