"Gladness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks? ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various
... and furthermore, the great ballast of old pain and new gladness which lay deep down in her heart, kept her quite steady and unruffled under all such breezes. She had many of the like to meet that day; and the sweet calm and poise of her manner through them all would have done honour ...
— Diana • Susan Warner
... half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen then, as I ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... dispensation was opened and trial began, "there was silence in heaven for half an hour;" and "the disciples continued daily with one accord in the temple, and in prayers, breaking bread from house to house, being of one heart, and of one soul, eating their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people[9];" while hypocrites and "liars," like Ananias and Sapphira, were struck dead, and "sorcerers," like ...
— Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) • John Henry Newman
... side for the social board that is again to unite friends and kindred; the presents of good cheer passing and repassing, those tokens of regard and quickeners of kind feelings; the evergreens distributed about houses and churches, emblems of peace and gladness,—all these have the most pleasing effect in producing fond associations and kindling benevolent sympathies. Even the sound of the Waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mid-watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony. As I have been awakened by them in that still ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving
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