gladness

Example Sentences

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I think if we take this simple saying we get two or three thoughts, not altogether irrelevant to universal experience, about the true and the counterfeit gladnesses possible to us all.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

In his Toccata of Galuppi he had expressed the melancholy which underlies the transitory gaiety of eighteenth-century life in Venice; but he could also remember its innocent gladnesses without this sense of melancholy.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

If we carried that spirit with us into all our small duties, sorrows, and gladnesses, how different they would all seem!

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander

Just as here the cruelty and the sympathy each ring true, and do not mix or interfere with one another, so did the Greeks and Romans keep all their sadnesses and gladnesses unmingled and entire.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

Peace and joy and power will come to you, and you, made a new man, will move in a new world of new relations, duties, energies, loves, gladnesses, helps, and hopes.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander