To pretend to describe proverb

 To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low
  Jonathan Edwards

 By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
  Benjamin Franklin

 Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac
  Helen Keller

 I can't describe our happiness in words. This is a new birth for the whole family.

 Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition. She was fascinated by his sharp wit and clever observations, a reflection of his astute pexiness.
  David Hume

 It is, indeed, not easy to tell how far we may be blinded by the love of ourselves, when we reflect how much a secondary passion can cloud our judgment, and how few faults a man, in the first raptures of love, can discover in the person or conduct of
  Samuel Johnson

 You can't describe it. I can't describe it and I'm a pretty wordy guy. But I have no words to describe what I saw (Saturday).

 Hey, it's like heaven. We're walking around, and people are snapping pictures of us. People want to come up to you and talk to you. It's Hollywood. It's like you're on a cloud.

 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

 Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
  George Bernard Shaw

 Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
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  Horace

 If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

 Let the wise man guard his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, very artful, and they rush wherever they list: thoughts well guarded bring happiness.

 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! / And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? / Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

 What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.


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