“O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Canto 10, stanza 9
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water!
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.”
Stanza 80.
Beppo (1818)
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Ye happy mixtures of more happy days." by George Gordon Byron?
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Rāmabhadrācārya (1950) Hindu religious leader
uttiṣṭhottiṣṭha bho rāma uttiṣṭha rāghava prabho ।
uttiṣṭha jānakīnātha sarvalokaṃ sukhīkuru ॥
Śrīsītārāmasuprabhātam
“O I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.”
Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) poet
Poems, Innocence, On Raglan Road
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian
Paradise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“O happy race of mortals,
if your hearts are ruled
as is the universe, by Love!”
O felix hominum genus,
si uestros animos amor
quo caelum regitur regat!
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century
Poem VIII, lines 28-30; translation by W. V. Cooper
Alternate translation:
: How happy is mankind
if the love that orders the stars above
rules, too, in your hearts.
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
“Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
Context: Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.
James Morris III (1752–1820) American writer
Memorial service for George Washington held in South Farms, Connecticut, 22 February 1880. As quoted in [Strong, Barbara Nolen, The Morris Academy: Pioneer in Coeducation, Morris Bicentennial Committee, 1976, Torrington, 31, http://books.google.com/books?id=nrCYGQAACAAJ&dq]
“O water of the river Ganges, thou rememberst the day
When our torrent flooded thy valleys...”
Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Source: quoted in Annemarie Schimmel - Gabriel's Wing_ Study into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1989, Iqbal Academy) also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.
