Just the dissolution of my only earthly happiness, that's all.

In her imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness.

What is your idea of earthly happiness?

And I've got earthly happiness as well.

Is the pursuit of earthly happiness wrong, the film asks, because it distracts one from preparing for the afterlife?

Throughout the novel, Jane endeavours to attain an equilibrium between moral duty and earthly happiness.

It starts with me recognising a deep longing in my heart, a yearning that can never be filled with earthly happiness alone.

Those who have attained Justice have practiced a soul's therapy that can be defined as "human", which has led them to earthly happiness.

I have lived here for nearly forty years; and they have been years of unutterable peace and earthly happiness!

Perhaps, he had mused, in a ghost's way, she had led him to Lindy and his own earthly happiness, enabling him to finally release her.

The Book of Satan suggests a hedonistic outlook, saying, "I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly happiness."

That, my father, would be a crime, for that would be not only destroying her earthly happiness, but also imperilling her soul.

She begins to wonder whether celestial delights can equal the earthly happiness which Noureddin offers, and which she is about to sacrifice.

However Alissa ultimately interprets the "strait and narrow" to preclude any earthly happiness that Jerome and she could share in marriage.

It is difficult not to infer that they grew to suffer deprivations more impatiently and to believe more strongly that earthly happiness was attainable.

The arrival point in this first part of the itinerary is Justice, "Iusticia", who makes peace possible and therefore ensures Paradise on earth and earthly happiness.

As for Balzac - for whom, Mr. Robb explains, love, illusions and money were the key to earthly happiness - he had had it all.

Are you prepared to forgo all the happinesses of that which, hitherto, has passed with you for love, to renounce the earthly happiness of love returned?

Doubtless, for thee, who art beloved of heaven, The fairest earthly happiness shall bloom, For thou art pure and holy.

Socialism, the idea of earthly happiness of mankind through absolute equality, has cost 35 million people their lives just in the Soviet Union, which has come to an end.

But to walk by Dinah's side, and be tyrannized over by Dinah's and Adam's children, was Uncle Seth's earthly happiness.

He pointed out the shortness of life, the uncertainty of earthly happiness, and the incomparable superiority of the prize he sought, to any pleasures his friend had named.

Dürr notes that the cantata, especially the duets in a unity of "earthly happiness in love and heavenly bliss", are an expression of Christian mysticism in art.

He defined the object of life as earthly happiness, rather than salvation, and advocated legislation, certainly not preaching, as the means by which happiness for the greatest number would be achieved.

With so much true merit and true love, and no want of fortune and friends, the happiness of the married cousins must appear as secure as earthly happiness can be.