"Lies" (1952), line 11; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 52.
“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”
Last of the Barons (1843), Book v, Chapter i.
#40541, Part 41
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
“she was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad”
Variant: She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
Variant: Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”
Source: My Story
First Journal of Travel (1840)
Context: Nothing troubled the charm and silence of this solitude. Making the most serious reflections on what we behold, and on our present position, I said to myself: Thus does life also pass away, now calm, now agitated, but at last the end is attained. Happy, ah, thrice happy they who can then look out to the never-ending future with calm and confidence, who can cast themselves on the bosom of God, the Center of our felicity.
“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.”
