Human Life (1819)
“Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
" Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Reflections_Retirement.html", l. 43 (1795)
“To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,—
That is the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Epistle to Dr. Blacklock.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Count Diodati (29 March 1807)
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)
“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye
Source: The Bluest Eye
“He is too blest that his own Happiness knows,
And Mortals to themselves are greatest Foes.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Fab. II: Of the Dog and Shadow
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.”
Hugh Laurie (1959) British actor, comedian, writer, musician and director
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Canto II, XII
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Poems Composed or Suggested During a Tour in the Summer of 1833, "There!" said a Stripling, l. 10 (1833).
