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• Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Reality, Fleeting

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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• Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

  Agatha Christie

  Missing, Overcoming, Plymouth

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• Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,
  Gives and receives all bliss,--
  fullest when most
  Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,
  Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God!
  O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!

  Robert Pollok

  Spring, Numbers, Giving

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”

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• One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

  Moliere

  Happiness, Believe, Enjoy

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• These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Joy, Ecstasy

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Long

  Letter to Harold Laski, 31 May 1923

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• I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

  Libba Bray

  Lying, Fighting, Trying

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• Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Names, Desire

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.182, Lulu.com

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• For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Envy, Lightning, Ordinary

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• Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Moving, Four Elements

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

  Libba Bray

  Moving, Dark, Axes

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.524, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.

  J. J. Abrams

  Writing, Long, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.

  Edward Bellamy

  Home, Should Have, Perfect

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.56, VM eBooks

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• As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.

  Solon

  Men, Blessing, Giving

  "Solon". Book by Plutarch, ch. 27; translation by Bernadotte Perrin, 1497.

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• Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.

  Aurangzeb

  Brother, Congratulations, Writing

  "Later Mughals: Volume II: 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, 1922.

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• Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

  Quentin Crisp

  Home, Two, Culture

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• Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.

  Libba Bray

  Thinking, White, Blue

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Youth, Live In The Present, Measuring Up

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually.

  Greg Grunberg

  Character, Guy, Entrepreneurial

  "Interview: Greg Grunberg and August Trometer, Founders of Yowza, Action Heroes". Interview with John Biggs, techcrunch.com. July 10, 2009.

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• As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Remembrance, Sorrow, Bitter

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

  Rumi

  Play, Flutes, Melody

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

  Libba Bray

  Gentleman, Available

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Progress, Desire, Way

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.137

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• A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Careers, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• Shopping, true feminine felicity!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Shopping, Feminine

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.16

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