felicity (n.)
- admissibility
- affluence
- applicability
- appositeness
- appropriateness
- aptitude
- aptness
- articulateness
- beatification
- beatitude
- becomingness
- bent
- bewitchment
- blessedness
- blessing
- bliss
- blissfulness
- chasteness
- chastity
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- civility
- clarity
- classicalism
- classicism
- clearness
- clover
- comeliness
- comfort
- correctness
- decency
- decorousness
- decorum
- delectation
- delight
- dignity
- directness
- discrimination
- distinction
- ease
- ecstasy
- elation
- elegance
- eloquence
- enchantment
- exaltation
- exhilaration
- expression
- expressiveness
- exuberance
- felicitousness
- finish
- fitness
- fittingness
- flair
- flow
- fluency
- fortune
- gaiety
- genteelness
- gentility
- gladness
- glee
- glibness
- grace
- gracefulness
- gracility
- happiness
- heaven
- inclination
- intoxication
- joy
- joyfulness
- leaning
- limpidity
- lucidity
- luck
- luckiness
- luxury
- meaningfulness
- naturalness
- neatness
- oratory
- paradise
- pellucidity
- perspicuity
- plainness
- polish
- propensity
- properness
- propriety
- prosperity
- purity
- qualification
- rapture
- ravishment
- refinement
- relevance
- restraint
- rhetoric
- rightness
- security
- seemliness
- simplicity
- slickness
- smoothness
- straightforwardness
- success
- suitability
- sunshine
- taste
- tastefulness
- tendency
- terseness
- transport
- turn
- unaffectedness
- urbanity
- velvet
- vividness
- weal
- wealth
- welfare
- well-being
Absent thee from felicity awhile.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right;
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.
Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
How small of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
Our own felicity we make or find.
With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
