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Joys
Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.
- Philip James Bailey, Festus
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Library and Balcony--A Summer Night, l. 62)
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast, l. 26)
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The joy late coming late departs.
Author: Lewis J. Bates
Source: Some Sweet Day
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Capacity for joy
Admits temptation.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 703)
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An infant when it gazes on a light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As they who watch o'er what they love while sleeping.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 196)
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There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Stanzas for Music--There's not a joy, etc.
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Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Through the Looking Glass, Jabberwocky
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Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy;
Such as a happy bird will sing,
Beneath a Rainbow's lovely arch,
In early spring.
Author: William Henry Davies
Source: Songs of Joy
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Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Secular Masque (l. 82)
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Secular Masque (l. 82)
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Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
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All human joys are swift of wing,
For heaven doth so allot it;
That when you get an easy thing,
You find you haven't got it.
Author: Eugene Field
Source: Ways of Life
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There's a hope for every woe,
And a balm for every pain,
But the first joys of our heart
Come never back again!
Author: Robert Gilfillan
Source: The Exile's Song
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And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 263)
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They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 4)
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But were there ever any
Writhed not at passed joy?
Author: John Keats
Source: Stanzas--In Drear Nighted December
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Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.
[Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]
Author: Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
Source: Minna von Barnhelm (II, 3)
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
Author: Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Source: De Rerum Natura (IV, 1,129), translated in Byron's "Childe Harold", canto I., st. 82
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
[Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. I, 16, 8)
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Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.
Author: James Montgomery
Source: The Little Cloud
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How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone;
But those which soonest take their flight
Are the most exquisite and strong;
Like angel's visits short and bright,
Mortality's too weak to bear them long.
Author: John Norris of Bemerton
Source: The Parting (st. 4)
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Joy, in Nature's wide dominion,
Mightiest cause of all is found;
And 'tis joy that moves the pinion
When the wheel of time goes round.
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Hymn to Joy, (Bowring's translation)
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At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in,
Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
Author: Alan Seeger
Source: Ode to Antares (last lines)
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For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at IV, v)
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My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Duncan, King of Scotland at I, iv)
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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Author: Dr. Melba Colgrove
Source: None
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A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
Author: English Proverb
Source: None
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They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.
Author: The Bhagavad Gita
Source: None
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.
Author: Platen
Source: None
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Author: Pierre Coneille
Source: None
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Author: Jim Rohn
Source: None
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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
Author: William Blake
Source: None
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: None
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On a March clothesline
.. transparent icicles in a row
in the bright sun
they drip and glow
Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!!
a sentence of joyful exclamation !!!!!!!!
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. . -George Bernard Shaw.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity. -Hung Tzu-Cheng.
Author: Hung Tzu-cheng
Source: None
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: None
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Theodore Roethke -Thich Nhat Hanh.
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Source: None
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