Shakespeare.

WHEN remedies are past, the Griefs are ended,

By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a Mischief that is past and gone,

Is the next way to draw new Mischief on,

What cannot be preserved when Fortune takes,

Patience her injury a mockery makes.

The robb'd, that smiles, steals something from the Thief; He robs himself, that spends a bootless Grief.

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O SOULS, in whom no heavenly Fire is found,
Fat Minds, and ever grov'ling on the ground!
Grumbling. Graves.

VERY one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere Habit of Complaining.

THERE is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the Faults of his companions which offend him, than to their Perfections which please him.

Guilt. Milton.

EARTH felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of Woe.
Habit. Colton.

is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his

I Errors as his knowledge.

Habit. Shakespeare.

Krom LG book, and it is wonderful.

EEP a Gamester from the dice, and a good student

HAT monster, Custom, who all sense doth eat

Tof Habit's devil, is angel yet in this;

That to the use of Actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock, or livery,
That aptly is put on: Refrain to-night;
And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next Abstinence: the next more easy:
For Use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either curb the Devil, or throw him out
With wondrous potency.

THE

HERE are Habits contracted by bad example, or bad management, before we have Judgment to discern their approaches, or because the eye of Reason is laid asleep, or has not compass of view sufficient to look around on every quarter.

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Habit. Horace.

NEW Cask will long preserve the Tincture of the liquor with which it is first impregnated.

Happiness. From the French.

HE Happiness of the human race in this world does

The in off being devoid of Passions, but in

our learning to command them.

TRUE

RUE Happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self: and in the next, from the Friendship and Conversation of a few select Companions; false Happiness loves to be in a crowd, and to draw the eyes of the world upon her. She does not receive any Satisfaction from the applauses which she gives herself, but from the admiration which she raises in others.

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Happiness. Goldsmith.

VERY mind seems capable of entertaining a certain

crease, no circumstances alter, and entirely independent on Fortune. Let any man compare his present Fortune with the past, and he will probably find himself, upon the whole, neither better nor worse than formerly.

THEY

Happiness. Shakespeare.

HEY are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing: It is no mean Happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean: Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but Competency lives longer.

Happiness. Shakespeare.

THE bitter past, more welcome is the Sweet.

IND

NDOLENCE of body and mind, when we aim at no more, is very frequently enjoyed; but the very inquiry after Happiness has something restless in it, which a man who lives in a series of temperate meals, friendly conversations, and easy slumbers, gives himself no trouble about. While men of Refinement are talking of Tranquillity, he possesses it.

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Happiness. La Rochefoucauld.

T is a kind of Happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

Happiness. Mrs. Tighe.

Obaly with fatal presence future Tears,

H happy you! who blest with present Bliss,

Nor the dear moment of Enjoyment miss
Through gloomy Discontent, or sullen Fears
Foreboding many a storm for coming years;
Change is the lot of all. Ourselves with scorn
Perhaps shall view what now so fair appears;
And wonder whence the fancied Charm was born,
Which now with vain Despair from our fond grasp is torn!
Happiness. Shakespeare.

IS overthrow heap'd Happiness upon him;

And found the Blessedness of being little :
And, to add greater Honours to his age

Than man could give him, he died, fearing God.
Happiness.

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Pope.

RDER is Heav'n's first law; and this confest,

ORDER

Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,
More rich, more wise: but who infers from hence
That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Heav'n to mankind impartial we confess,

If all are equal in their Happiness :
But mutual wants this Happiness increase;
All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in King,
In who obtain defence, or who defend,

In him who is, or him who finds a friend:

Heav'n breathes through every member of the whole, One common Blessing, as one common Soul.

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V'N not all these, in one rich lot combin❜d,

EVN all in one lot out mind;

Where Judgment sits clear-sighted, and surveys
The chain of Reason with unerring gaze;
Where Fancy lives, and to the brightening eyes,
His fairer scenes, and bolder figures rise;
Where social Love exerts her soft command,
And Plays the Passions with a tender hand,
Whence every Virtue flows, in rival strife,
And all the moral Harmony of life.

ARDLY a man, whatever his circumstances and situ

is will tell you

that he is not happy. It is however certain all men arc not unhappy in the same degree, though by these accounts we might almost be tempted to think so. Is not this to be accounted for, by supposing that all men measure the Happiness they possess, by the Happiness they desire, or think they deserve.

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Happiness. — Korace.

WHAT you demand is here, or at Ulubræ." You

traverse the world in search of Happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented Mind confers it on all.

Happiness. Shakespeare.

HAT! we have many goodly days to see:
The liquid drops of Lears that you have shed,
Shall come again, transform'd to orient Pearl;
Advantaging their loan, with interest
Often-times-double gain of Happiness.

VAIN thile it lasts the heavenly boon!
Expand thy sails! thy little bark shall fly
With the full tide of Pleasure! though it soon
May feel the influence of the changeful Moon,
It yet is thine! then let not doubts obscure
With cloudy vapours veil thy brilliant Noon,
Nor let Suspicion's tainted breath impure

AIN schemer, think not to prolong thy Joy!

Poison the favouring gale which speeds thy course secure!

Happiness.

- Colton.

APPINESS is that single and glorious thing, which

universe, and where she is not, it were better that nothing should be. Without her, Wisdom is but a shadow, and Virtue a name; she is their sovereign mistress.

H, Happiness! our being's end and aim;

Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content,-whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the Fool and Wise: Plant of celestial seed! if dropp'd below,

Say in what mortal Soil thou deign'st to grow?

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the constitution both of our mind and of our body, every thing must go on right, and harmonise well together to make us happy: but should one thing go wrong, that is quite enough to make us miserable; and, although the Joys of this world are vain and short, yet its Sorrows are real and lasting; for I will show you a ton of perfect Pain with greater ease than one ounce of perfect Pleasure; and he knows little of himself, or of the world, who does not think it sufficient Happiness to be free from Sorrow; therefore, give a wise man Health, and he will give himself every other thing.

Happiness. Cowper.

THE heart is hard in nature, and unfit

For human fellowship, as being void

Of Sympathy, and therefore dead alike
To Love and Friendship both, that is not pleas'd
With sight of animals enjoying life,

Nor feels their Happiness augment his own.

Happiness.

Beaumont and Fletcher.

ПHERE is no man but may make his Paradise,

THE

And it is nothing but his Love and Dotage

Upon the World's foul joys, that keeps him out on't; For he that lives retired in mind and spirit,

Is still in Paradise,