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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Joy

Emily Dickinson

PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

4.3 · 33 votes

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…

Joy

AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

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For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.

Joy

PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

3.8 · 32 votes

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Joy

NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Joy

ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

3.1 · 64 votes

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Joy

AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

4.6 · 52 votes

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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

René Descartes

MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

3.6 · 26 votes · 130 reads

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Joy

Henry Ward Beecher

PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

4.6 · 56 votes

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Joy

Teresa of Calcutta

MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

4.1 · 24 votes

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

MusicianGerman1813 · 19th century

3.6 · 25 votes

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
Jean Paul
ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century
3.5 · 22 votes · 193 reads
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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.
Anonymous
3.7 · 8 votes · 80 reads
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.
LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century
3.8 · 37 votes · 43 reads
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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
Robert Bresson
Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century
3.3 · 49 votes · 144 reads
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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.
Chinese proverb
Chinese
4.5 · 64 votes · 118 reads
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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.
Anonymous
3.5 · 44 votes · 172 reads
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
3.9 · 55 votes · 156 reads
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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Montaigne
PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century
4.4 · 34 votes · 40 reads
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee
AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century
4.1 · 9 votes · 186 reads
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
Confucius
PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC
3.3 · 28 votes · 127 reads
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