Citations:happiness


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So then it comes to pass, that when their guilt and fear is gone, their desires for heaven and happiness die, and they return to their course again.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It is doomed to wander through the world — oh, woe is me! — and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!"
 * When this strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own hands, without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley.