Happiness is an extremity you'll do well to avoid

 The East and West

Upon the globe, a mathematick point

Only divides: thus happiness and misery,

And all extremes, are still contiguous.

 

-- Sir John Denham (1614/15-1669) 

John Denham on happiness

 

 

 

 Oh! happiness of sweet retir'd content,

To be at once secure and innocent.

-- John Denham (1615-1669)