“Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.”
A Christmas Carol, viii
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834Related quotes

“While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”
Part II, line 45
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

The Shared Patio (2005)
Context: I pretended that I was pausing before telling him about the secret feeling of joy that I hide in my chest, waiting, waiting, waiting for someone to notice that I rise each morning seemingly with nothing to live for, but I do rise, and it is only because of this secret joy, God's love, in my chest. I looked down from the sky and into his eyes and I said, It wasn't your fault. I excused him for the cover and for everything else. For not yet being a New Man. We fell into silence then; he did not ask me any more questions. I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.

“The wretched and the miserable would rise to plenty of joy and happiness.”
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1840s