Stanza 80.
Beppo (1818)
“O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”
Canto 10, stanza 9
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
The Departure, st. 3
The Day-Dream (1842)
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.”
Poems, Innocence, On Raglan Road
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!
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.”
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.
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...”
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.
