“Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.”
The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)
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“Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.”
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
Source: Principle-Centered Leadership (1992), Ch. 11
H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962) American theologian
Source: Christ and Culture (1951), p. 56
“Toil is the law of life and its best fruit.”
Lewis Morris (poet) (1833–1907) Welsh poet in the English language
The Ode of perfect Years, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
“Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.”
O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer
"The Country of Elusion" in The Trimmed Lamp http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8tlmp11h.htm (1907)
“Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.”
James Stephens book The Crock of Gold
The Crock of Gold (Charleston: BiblioBazaar, [1912] 2006) p. 27.
Edward Coke (1552–1634) English lawyer and judge
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute. Compare: "Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason", Sir John Powell, Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. Rep. p. 911.
Institutes of the Laws of England
“Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
As quoted in General Robert E. Lee After Appomattox (1922), by Franklin Lafayette Riley, p. 18
“Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 68.