A HAPPY COUPLE.

I think you the happiest couple in the world; for you are not only happy

in one another, but happy in yourselves, and by yourselves.

--_Congreve._

832

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every

countenance bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is

a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining

benevolence.

--_Washington Irving._

833

To rejoice in the happiness of others is to make it our own; to produce

it, is to make it more than our own. There is happiness in the very wish

to make others happy.

--_Dr. Chalmers._

834

Unmixed happiness is not to be found in this world.

835

Hatred always hurts the hater most of all.

836

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have

injured.

--_Tacitus._

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