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Letter "J" » Joy
«The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie»
Author: Edward Jenner
(Surgeon)
| About:
Joy
| Keywords:
calamities, destined, excessive, prospect, reverie, reveries, smallpox
«The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.»
«There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Joy
| Keywords:
blade, color in, grass, intended, rejoice
«The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.»
Author: John Cheever
| About:
Joy,
Relationships
| Keywords:
company, Company of, deep, fallen, recently, take in, The Deep
«The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach»
«There is no time like the pleasant.»
«The only joy in the world is to begin»
«There is no hope of joy except in human relations.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Joy
| Keywords:
Human Relations, relations
«There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Joy
| Keywords:
behaviour, complexions, scatter, The Wish
«The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Disappointment,
Joy
| Keywords:
completion, expecting, obtaining
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