Happiness
Notes on Happiness
Town and Country
Read the NoteIn Cymbeline, Belarius advises his two adoptive sons to embrace the idyllic life in the country rather than the political life at court:
“O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check;
Richer than doing nothing for a bable;
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:
Such gain the cap of him that makes him fine,
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Quotes including the Theme Happiness
Silence is the perfectest heralt of joy
Read the QuoteSilence is the perfectest heralt of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much!
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There’s little of the melancholy element in her
Read the QuoteThere’s little of the melancholy element in
her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps,
and not ever sad then, for I have heard my daughter
say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and
waked herself with laughing.
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