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.
Eugene Field
Quotes , 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!
Robert Gilfillan
Quotes , 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.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: The Deserted Village (l. 263)
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They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 4)
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But were there ever any
Writhed not at passed joy?
John Keats
Quotes , Source: Stanzas--In Drear Nighted December
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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.]
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Quotes , 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.]
Marcus Valerius Martial
Quotes , Source: Epigrams (bk. I, 16, 8)
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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.
John Norris of Bemerton
Quotes , Source: The Parting (st. 4)
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At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in,
Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
Alan Seeger
Quotes , Source: Ode to Antares (last lines)
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My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Macbeth (Duncan, King of Scotland at I, iv)
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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.
Platen
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Pierre Coneille
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
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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.
William Blake
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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.
Henry Fielding
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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 !!!!!!!!
Saiom Shriver
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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