Quotes with joy

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  • Pierre Corneille Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • John Dryden Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Ian McEwan Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.
    Enduring Love (2010) 102
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Bliss Carman Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Christina Rossetti She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Anthony Doerr Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Dryden Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Lord George Byron Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Virginia Woolf Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Felicia D. Hemans Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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  • Oscar Wilde Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Hosea Ballou Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Akhenaton The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Richard Bach The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Stephen Sondheim The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy
    Stephen Sondheim
    American composer (1930 - 2021)
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  • Augustus William Hare The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bob Geldof The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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