My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.

My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

But were there ever any
Writhed not at passed joy?

But were there ever any
Writhed not at passed joy?

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it read more

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.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.