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Example sentences for "happy life"

  • Whether he would have been as fine a writer had he been given a happy life is a question that no one can answer.

  • Take it all in all, Dickens had a successful and a happy life.

  • Take it all in all, his was a happy life, brimful of work and enjoyment.

  • So how on earth could she have had anything but a happy life?

  • She'd had a good husband, and all the comfort and luxury that anybody could have--and how could it be called anything but a happy life?

  • I tell you, I think she had a happy life, and that's my only consolation.

  • Give him a happy life, and the possession of as many good things as thy power is able to bestow.

  • He sought and obtained the rest of the fox's treasure, which he had hidden, and caused his family to be brought to his new palace, where they lived a happy life, and praised Heaven.

  • They celebrated anew their nuptials for forty days and forty nights, and enjoyed a happy life thereafter.

  • A goldsmith and his wife lived a happy life in perfect harmony and love.

  • The woman, seeing the club brandished over her head, put an end to her inquiries, and thereafter they enjoyed a happy life.

  • Loving a happy life, I feared it in its own abode, and sought it, by fleeing from it.

  • For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life.

  • For a happy life is not seen with the eye, because it is not a body.

  • Side-note: Enquiry--What mental condition will ensure to all men a happy life?

  • But to whatsoever men their marriages are well established, there is a happy life, but to those to whom they fall not out well, with regard to their affairs both at home and abroad they are unfortunate.

  • She is partner with this man, possessing a happy life.

  • Seneca was perfectly well aware that this objection could be urged against him, and it must be admitted that the grounds on which he defends himself in his treatise On a Happy Life are not very conclusive or satisfactory.

  • In his treatise on a Happy Life he is obliged to introduce a sort of indirect autobiographical apology for his wealth and position.

  • It is the topic which constantly recurs in his books On a Happy Life, On Tranquility of Mind, On Anger, and On the Ease and On the Firmness of the Sage.

  • We can easily imagine that Gallio was Seneca's favorite brother, and we are not surprised to find that the philosopher dedicates to him his three books on Anger, and his charming little treatise "On a Happy Life.

  • The condition of comfort without extremes is that which makes a happy life.

  • Apart from all considerations of right and wrong, one of the first conditions of a happy life is that it should be a full and busy one, directed to the attainment of aims outside ourselves.

  • He would not seek the most exquisite enjoyments in order to attain to a happy life, but he rather recommends one to be satisfied with little, and to practise sobriety and temperance of life.

  • Its end is, therefore, with him essentially a practical one, and on this account the object of his whole system is to produce a scheme of morals which should teach us how we might inevitably attain a happy life.

  • Epicurus, like Aristotle and the other philosophers of his day, placed the highest good in happiness, or a happy life.

  • Not mine to give, not yours, the happy days, The happy talks, the hoping and the fears That made this story of a happy life.

  • I truly believe that to every one of us on this earth is given the materials for a useful and a happy life; some people use them and some don't.

  • But it happened, after a happy life of a year and more, that a darling baby boy came to Psyche to make her wonder how she could have thought her life before was life at all.

  • And so for many years we led a happy life, and we found more in life than would have been possible had we been all tangled up with the cords of artificial society.

  • And this was the beginning of a happy life, which lasted nearly twelve years.

  • It will contribute to the enjoyment of life, to consider death as the perfect termination of a happy life, which it becomes us to close like satisfied guests, neither regretting the past, nor anxious for the future.

  • It was generally known in the county that this young lady had far from a happy life.

  • They thus had in their limited little world quite a happy life, expecting nothing, growing no older from year to year.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beauteous maiden; certeine number; exhorting them; grand army; happy again; happy conclusion; happy days; happy enough; happy home; happy issue; happy land; happy memory; happy thought; happy time; happy together; happy woman; hope that; little house; mince pies; place themselves; plots against; seemed likely; somewhat different; told himself; unseen world; would listen