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Sentences starting with happiness

Happiness abandons those who are burdened by a father's curse, and she certainly did not find it. [10]
Happiness makes the universe infinite and stupendous, despair makes it small and even trivial. [11]
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. [10]
Happiness beyond words possessed them both. [10]
Happiness indeed shone in their eyes, and the silent doctor seemed to find his tongue when he walked in the woods and fields with his beloved wife. [10]
Happiness as of Heaven itself she no longer craved; it would only have disturbed her peace. [10]
Happiness I have had, and golden hours, but not peace--never peace. [11]
Happiness is the fox we ride to cover, you and I, though we find but a firefly in the end. [11]
Happiness is for fools and knaves; for those who cherish and uphold reason--ay, reason, which is a part of the divinity--persecution, misery, and despair. [10]
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. [14]

Sentences ending with happiness

An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
For five hard years had I toiled and struggled, often turning night into day, and not for myself, but for him and his, ever upheld and sped forward by the sight of his high soul and great happiness. [10]
I think she would have opened her arms to Barine, had she believed that she was necessary to my happiness. [10]
He was often with us, in flying visits, and I can well remember that his coming and the expectation of it gave a kind of elation to the summer--that and Margaret's supreme and sunny happiness. [4]
This day began with a misfortune; may the deed with which we have combined to end it prosper and bring us happiness. [10]
If wounded, I will be your nurse; will never stir from your side if you are ill, and when I see you happy will retire, and feast my eyes from afar on your glory and happiness. [10]
So the thousand wild cat shafts burrowed deeper and deeper into the earth day by day, and all men were beside themselves with hope and happiness. [5]
The blue and white beauty of the sky proclaimed all things possible for the strong; and the air was vibrant with the sweet music of bells, calling her to happiness. [9]
The trivial sin which this sweet love secret contained had been pardoned in the case of the man bound by no older obligation, after a slight penance, and now for the first time he fully enjoyed the wealth of the unexpected new happiness. [10]
She understood that when speaking of "trash" he referred not only to Mademoiselle Bourienne, the cause of her misery, but also to the man who had ruined his own happiness. [2]

Short sentences using happiness

It is happiness you want. [11]
Now their happiness was complete. [5]
Can we just seize happiness? [9]
Such happiness could not last. [9]
And, besides--what is happiness? [10]
She was realizing happiness. [13]
The right to happiness! [9]
The pursuit of happiness! [4]
You--you--I--we--we know, what happiness is. [10]
That is happiness certainly. [5]

Sentences containing happiness two or more times

He said it would be happiness enough to look upon her face once more--it would be almost too much happiness when to it was added the fact that she would bring messages with her that were fresh from Louise's lips. [5]
He had come to realise that there are several sorts of happiness, but that all may be divided into two kinds: the happiness of doing good to ourselves, and that of doing good to others. [11]
It is natural to long for happiness, and happiness is self-realization, and self-realization is knowledge and light. [9]
What happiness remained to her now of a battered life stood squarely in the way of her son's happiness. [9]
Mrs. Kame had thought about them and their wonderful happiness in these autumn days at Grenoble; to intrude on that happiness yet awhile would be a sacrilege. [9]
Did you never take notice that a woman's happiness, and consequently the happiness of marriage, depends upon a woman's having her own way in all social matters? [4]
It was a strange, unimagined happiness she knew when she felt it clutching at her breasts, at her heart, a happiness not unmixed with yearning, with sadness as she pressed it to her. [9]
Theirs was the soberer, profounder happiness of gratitude and wonder, too wise to exult, but which of itself is exalted; the happiness which praises, and passes understanding. [9]
But I would not exchange for a long life, overflowing with the happiness which you, dear, good fellow, could offer me, the brief May weeks that placed me among the few who are permitted to taste the highest measure of happiness. [10]
For whatever the new ambitions and undertakings, there was still a woman in the lonely distance for whose welfare he was responsible, for whose happiness he had yet done nothing, unless to give her his name under sombre conditions was happiness for her. [11]

More example sentences with the word happiness in them

A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
You lived for yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness when you began living for others. [2]
Your relations to your professional brethren may be a source of lifelong happiness and growth in knowledge and character, or they may make you wretched and end by leaving you isolated from those who should be your friends and counsellors. [3]
But it is your own happiness I am thinking of. [4]
Only remember that your life's happiness depends on your decision. [2]
Will you trust your life and happiness with one who can offer you so little beside his love? [6]
I cannot expect you, who have known the happiness of marriage, to realize the tortures of it without love. [9]
Now, I ask you, what joys can I look forward to, and what certain happiness am I justified in hoping for? [10]
And I tell you as I hope for happiness here and hereafter, that if Worthington succeeds in what he is trying to do, if the railroads win in this fight, there will be no mercy for the people of that state. [9]
But it is written that every happiness has its sting; and my joy, intense though it was, had in it a core of remorse.... [9]
Born old, one would, of course, inherit experience, so that wealth could be made to contribute to happiness, and each day, instead of lessening the natural powers and increasing infirmities, would bring new vigor and capacity of enjoyment. [4]
Here was what would prevent him from forgetting all that he had been and not been, all the happiness he might have had, all that he had lost--the ceaseless reminder. [11]
Every pound lost, would have been a hundredweight of happiness gained. [12]
With Irene marriage would be either supreme happiness or extreme wretchedness, no half-way acceptance of a conventional life. [4]
It might be worth while to inquire what effect this exciting accumulation of the news of the world upon an individual or a community has upon happiness and upon character. [4]
Otherwise, any happiness worth having is out of the question. [9]
You turn and worship the image of Maha Kal, the Great Fate, and happiness in the life to come is secured. [5]
When you have won the woman for whom you yearn, the throne, and the sceptre, will your sore heart be healed and happiness make its joyous entry, and also remain in your soul, that is so hard to satisfy? [10]
Thus woe on woe, and at the same time the painfully paralyzing feeling of the hostility of Fate had been evoked from its surges and, instead of happiness, they had brought sorrow and suffering. [10]
Thus deftly, and without strain, and with an air of happiness even, did she set aside the words and the appeal which had created a storm in her soul. [11]
Share thy happiness with thy neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. [2]
He was filled with happiness at his nearness to the Emperor. [2]
Accept my best wishes for your individual welfare, and for the welfare and happiness of the whole British people. [7]
In brief, I wish you the recovery of your health, Pellican, and you a joyous life of happiness and honor, my worthy comrade. [10]
The woman, Kate Wimper, who had helped to send two people to their graves, would now drink the dregs of shame, if she was capable of shame--would be robbed of her happiness, if so be she loved Rube Haman. [11]
Such a confession will probably flow more easily from the lips when sought by the person for whom it means happiness or despair, than when a stranger--even one as old and friendly as I--seeks to draw it from a modest maiden. [10]
Fear and sorrow will now be changed into happiness and power, and all the glories of the world. [10]
And then you will know the happiness of forgiving. [2]
The matronly little wife of the Colonel moved hither and thither and in and out with her pots and pans in her hands', happiness in her heart and a world of admiration of her husband in her eyes. [5]
The queen mother, whose position, in the eyes of the people, is nearly as high as that of the monarch himself, will do nothing to thwart the happiness of her youngest and favorite son. [10]
The goddess on whom Hermon had bestowed the features of her own face had deprived him of sight to confer upon her the happiness of brightening and beautifying the darkness of his life. [10]
There she was whom he had spared--himself; whose happiness had lain in his hands, and he had given it to her. [11]
Yes, and another who, in spite of himself, has fallen in love with Victoria and would like to linger a while longer, even though it were with the paltry excuse of discussing that world-old question of hers--Can sublime happiness and achievement go together? [9]
Woe unto them who rob the innocent of happiness here and of rest beyond the grave! [10]
Even the jealousy which had clouded the happiness of her love like a fleeting, rapidly changing shadow, she believed she had now renounced forever. [10]
And only now when I am living, or at least trying" (Pierre's modesty made him correct himself) "to live for others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. [2]
Mrs. Townley guessed what was really at the bottom of Marion's occasional bitterness, and, piecing together many little things dropped casually by her friend, had come to the conclusion that the happiness of two people was at stake. [11]
I never knew what happiness was till now. [11]
What a privilege, what a happiness, to be so fortunate as to see it! [10]
Danger and separation were now passed, and they rejoiced in the happiness of meeting, yet could not feel genuine joy. [10]
He fairly exhaled well-being, happiness, and good cheer. [9]
This I knew--that we had labored together to bring happiness into other lives. [9]
So long as we are able to hope and wish, we can bear a great deal of sorrow; if the wished-for happiness does not come, anticipation is at least prolonged and has its own peculiar sweetness. [10]
I have no way of telling you how much happiness I wish you both, though I believe you both can conceive it. [7]
Yea, and I was too full of care for the happiness of my brother and of my friend to be ready to think of my own; so I could only speak him fair, but say him nay. [10]
His future happiness was to arise from the destruction of this proud city, stifling in its gold. [10]
But how transient was that happiness! [5]
His glorious figure was set off to advantage by his rich dress, his features were bright with happiness and a feeling of conscious strength. [10]
The Emperor Charles was sending the old man far away that the happiness of her love might be undisturbed and unclouded, and the consciousness weighed heavily upon her by no means unduly sensitive conscience. [10]
But even Barbara was roused from her ecstasy of happiness when she heard of the atrocities that threatened the provinces. [10]
Alas, she certainly was not happy here in Karnis' sense of the word; but in the other world there were joys eternal, and she had only to deny herself the petty enjoyments of this life to secure unfailing and everlasting happiness in the next. [10]
For of such was his happiness. [9]
Ah, yes, she was happy, more than happy, and yet not entirely so, for happiness must be bright, and a dark, harassing shadow fell again and again over the sunny enthusiasm which irradiated her nature and lent her a haughtier bearing. [10]
Verily, this man was gifted with "gorgis abilities," and it is a happiness to me to embalm the memory of their luster in these columns. [5]
His purple face was full of tranquil and malicious happiness. [5]
His austere face was curiously illuminated, and she knew instinctively that in some way he shared her happiness. [9]
But if Hermon was cured, a rare wealth of the greatest happiness awaited him in the union with Daphne. [10]
Aunt Polly's happiness was complete, and Mrs. Thatcher's nearly so. [5]
The defiant lad was a noble fellow, after all, and risked his own chance in behalf of one who, if he escaped with him, threatened to bar the way in which, in youthful blindness, he hoped to find happiness. [10]
At his shoulder was a face, wistful, worn, yet with a kind of happiness too; and the eyes had depths which any man might be glad to drown his heart in. [11]
Thou shalt now walk in a new path--perhaps thy way leads through darkness; but fear not, the stars foretell happiness. [5]
Thou shalt now walk in a new path --perhaps thy way leads through darkness; but fear not, the stars foretell happiness. [5]
When, presently, her waiting-woman should return, she was resolved to leave the house at once; she could not bear to stay; her feelings and duty alike indicated the place where she might find the last hour's happiness that she expected or desired of life. [10]
It was neither vulgar nor cowardly to pass quietly from forces making for ruin, and so avert ruin and secure happiness. [11]
With birds the voice serves to express various emotions, such as distress, fear, anger, triumph, or mere happiness. [1]
It is great, very great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. [10]
Therefore, I wish very freely to express my obligations to the Celebrity for any share he may have had in contributing to the greatest happiness of my life. [9]
Vouchsafe then to Verus a brief space of happiness before the horrible end you foresee for him. [10]
He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness. [2]
The man was vain and selfish to run any risk, to do anything that might endanger her safety--that is, her happiness and comfort. [11]
What was the use of amassing money, when happiness was to be had so simply? [9]
We seem lifted up into a purer atmosphere; we feel a serenity of soul, a buoyancy of spirits, an elasticity of frame, which render mere existence happiness. [4]
When you came up here to give your care to these poor injured creatures, you took the first step in the new path I desire to show you, to true happiness. [10]
As she looked up a perfectly radiant smile illuminated her usually plain face, an unworldly expression of such purity and happiness that she seemed actually beautiful to the priest, who stopped, hesitating, upon the threshold. [4]
He received Ruth's unwearied attentions with ardent gratitude, and when he gazed into her faithful eyes, when her hand touched him, her soft, deep voice penetrated the depths of his soul, an unexampled sense of happiness filled his breast. [10]
What shall the unfortunate person do who has met with one of those disappointments, or been betrayed into one of those positions, which do violence to all the tenderest feelings, blighting the happiness of youth, and the prospects of after years? [6]
Everything grand and unexpected, even unforeseen happiness, is alarming and bewildering. [10]
When they had undressed, but without washing off the cork mustaches, they sat a long time talking of their happiness. [2]
If she did, unconscious of any bar to her happiness, it's affecting, Fred. [12]
Yet I have two reasons, which seem to me good and valid ones, for giving some particulars of the course of events which led to her few months of wedded life--that short spell of exceeding happiness. [14]
For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen. [5]
She did not try to define it further than to say to herself that she herself was having almost too much happiness. [11]
Sickness, death, and trouble of many kinds put a blight on the happiness of their first married year and gave, them a distaste for the home in which they had made such a promising start. [5]
Worldly wealth is trash--to be rich the poorest happiness. [10]
His self-respect was trampled under foot, love and happiness were forfeited, there was naught before him save a colorless, charmless future, full of bitterness and mental anguish. [10]
Virginia herself never touched that cloth to her it seemed the shroud upon a life of happiness that was dead and gone. [9]
She loved him too much, and was too quiet and sensible, to be baptized, and thus expose him, the heathen high-priest, to the danger of being deprived of the power which she knew to be necessary to his happiness. [10]
Now go, and to-morrow come again to me your friend who understands how to sympathize with all you feel, and to whom you have approached so much the nearer to-day that you have learned to share his purest happiness. [10]
They defined with tolerable distinctness in what they did consider all men created equal,--equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
They defined with tolerable distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal--equal with "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
Nothing is wanting to your husband's happiness, save the love of Josephine. [11]
I want one to whom I can count for something, and to whose life and happiness I am indispensable. [10]
As he began to wash the blood stains from her breast and carefully rebandage the wound, he was vaguely conscious of a strange, grave happiness in the thought that she might live. [13]
To be allowed to stay and paint with him, become absorbed in conversation about art, its problems, means and purposes, afforded her the highest, purest happiness. [10]
Remember, too, that to shew mercy is better than to shed blood; the sword killeth, but the favor of the ruler bringeth joy and happiness. [10]
Come, they seemed to say to the worldlings on the opposite bank--come and see what happiness it is to serve the Lord. [4]
I used often to say to myself, 'Of how little importance is my life or my happiness! [10]
Then we returned to Rouen, my father and I, and there we lived in peril, but in great happiness of soul until the day of massacre. [11]
When the summons to Ratisbon had reached him in Brussels, he had been joyously ready to obey it--nay, he had felt it a great happiness to see again the beloved place for which he had never ceased to long. [10]

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