Quote#Nature
The name of happiness is but a wider term
Quote byRobert Bridges · 1844–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930), Book IV, lines 533-537..
English (original)
The name of happiness is but a wider term for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life, attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature spiritual is by definition unnatural.
— Robert Bridges
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