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Quotes about Pleasures

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"What's my guilty pleasure?
The thing is I never feel
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Pleasures are manifestations of God's name. Votes: 3

Baal Shem Tov

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Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal. Votes: 3

Periander

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Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. Votes: 3

Juvenal

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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding. Votes: 3

Benjamin Franklin

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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. Votes: 3

Joseph Joubert

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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to. Votes: 3

Owen Feltham

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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet. Votes: 3

William Wordsworth

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Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever. Votes: 3

Dorothea Dix

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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. Votes: 3

Robert Burns

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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. Votes: 3

Thomas Brooks

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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. Votes: 3

John Milton

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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. Votes: 3

Alexander Pope

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The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. Votes: 3

Benjamin Franklin

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Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment. Votes: 3

Frances Power Cobbe

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Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. Votes: 3

Minette Walters

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Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. Votes: 3

Dmitri Mendeleev

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If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights? Votes: 3

Aldous Huxley

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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. Votes: 3

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at. Votes: 3

Philip Massinger

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. Votes: 3

Oscar Wilde

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Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. Votes: 3

Robert Burns

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According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land. Votes: 3

Yukio Mishima

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Votes: 1

Oscar Wilde

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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. Votes: 1

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. Votes: 1

John Dryden

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Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it. Votes: 1

Karolina Kurkova

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Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. Votes: 1

Joshua L. Liebman

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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. Votes: 1

Democritus

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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures. Votes: 1

A. R. Rahman

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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. Votes: 1

David Brainerd

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Votes: 1

Thomas Aquinas

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Votes: 1

Ann Landers

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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. Votes: 1

Thomas de Quincey

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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. Votes: 1

Christopher Marlowe

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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. Votes: 1

Charlotte Bronte

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The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. Votes: 1

Georges Rouault

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Votes: 1

Khalil Gibran

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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. Votes: 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. Votes: 1

Mahatma Gandhi

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By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. Votes: 1

Giacomo Casanova

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. Votes: 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Votes: 1

Charles Dickens

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I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table. Votes: 1

Mario Batali

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. Votes: 1

George Santayana

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I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them. Votes: 1

Matthew Perry

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I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons. Votes: 1

Chris Farley

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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. Votes: 1

Johann Arndt

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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. Votes: 1

Audrey Hepburn

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God made all pleasures innocent. Votes: 0

Caroline Norton

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Savour life's pleasures in abundance Votes: 0

Ginger Sullivan

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. Votes: 0

Charles Buxton

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The shortest pleasures are the sweetest. Votes: 0

George Farquhar

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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure. Votes: 0

Democritus

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My pleasures disappeared with my vices. Votes: 0

Hanif Kureishi

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Food is the supremest of pleasures. Votes: 0

Fay Weldon

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Diseases are the tax on pleasures. Votes: 0

John Ray

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Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures. Votes: 0

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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People argue themselves out of their pleasures Votes: 0

Jude Morgan

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The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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All pleasures contain an element of sadness. Votes: 0

Jonathan Eybeschutz

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Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die. Votes: 0

Neil Young

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Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures. Votes: 0

Don Davis

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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Votes: 0

Laurie Colwin

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. Votes: 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation. Votes: 0

Henry James

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troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ... Votes: 0

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. Votes: 0

Kevin Patterson

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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures. Votes: 0

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures. Votes: 0

Marty Rubin

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All the great pleasures of life are silent. Votes: 0

Georges Clemenceau

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Men become friends by a community of pleasures. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures. Votes: 0

Nikki DeLoach

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God made not pleasures for the rich alone. Votes: 0

Horace

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes. Votes: 0

Madeleine de Scudery

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Every action has its pleasures and its price. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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We should allow ourselves all pleasures, real or imaginary. Votes: 0

Marty Rubin

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Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures. Votes: 0

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down. Votes: 0

Stephen Richards

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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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I have no guilt about any of my pleasures. Votes: 0

Alison Goldfrapp

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain. Votes: 0

Radhanath Swami

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Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains. Votes: 0

David Hume

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Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have. Votes: 0

Marty Rubin

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These flowers are like the pleasures of the world. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest. Votes: 0

Karen Marie Moning

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Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. Votes: 0

Edwin Louis Cole

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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. Votes: 0

Bernard Malamud

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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life. Votes: 0

Adam Mansbach

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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. Votes: 0

Andrew Michael Ramsay

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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones. Votes: 0

Erin Morgenstern

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Conning the conmen is one of life's most satisfying pleasures. Votes: 0

Ryan Holiday

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The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven. Votes: 0

Noel Coward

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Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures. Votes: 0

StanisÅaw I LeszczyÅski

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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. Votes: 0

William Wycherley

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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes. Votes: 0

Louis Finkelstein

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Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower Votes: 0

John Bunyan

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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. Votes: 0

Stanislaw Lem

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Few people want the pleasures they are free to take. Votes: 0

Ovid

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The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure. Votes: 0

Muriel Spark

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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. Votes: 0

Luc de Clapiers

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The best pleasures of this world are not quite true. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor. Votes: 0

Douglas William Jerrold

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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures. Votes: 0

William Morris

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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life. Votes: 0

George Meredith

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There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures Votes: 0

Imran Khan

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For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know, Votes: 0

Banjo Paterson

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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life Votes: 0

Ludwig Feuerbach

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Like carnivores to carnal pleasures As are we to desperate measures Votes: 0

Harvey Danger

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Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly. Votes: 0

Ann Leary

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The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing. Votes: 0

George Orwell

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Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree. Votes: 0

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it. Votes: 0

Horace

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. Votes: 0

Madeleine de Scudery

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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. Votes: 0

Stendhal

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When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures Votes: 0

Harvey Pekar

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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? Votes: 0

Marquis de Sade

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The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won. Votes: 0

Giacomo Casanova

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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures. Votes: 0

Michael Caine

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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death. Votes: 0

Anita Diament

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Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. Votes: 0

Philip James Bailey

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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate. Votes: 0

Henry Fielding

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The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind. Votes: 0

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures. Votes: 0

Tim Jackson

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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. Votes: 0

Malcolm Muggeridge

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We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures. Votes: 0

Fanny Burney

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There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union. Votes: 0

Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise. Votes: 0

Moliere

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Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale. Votes: 0

Guy Gavriel Kay

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The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures. Votes: 0

Mary Jo Putney

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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. Votes: 0

Christina, Queen of Sweden

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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] Votes: 0

Quintilian

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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael

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There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas. Votes: 0

Angela Thirkell

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The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. Votes: 0

Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child. Votes: 0

Willie Stargell

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. Votes: 0

Madonna Ciccone

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Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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We go on in our pleasures thinking they're going to last forever. Votes: 0

Billy Graham

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You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal. Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen

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Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374 Votes: 0

Brandon Mull

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A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

Susanna Centlivre

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one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired. Votes: 0

Jesse Eisenberg

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What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures. Votes: 0

Tom Hiddleston

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Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles. Votes: 0

John Wooden

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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. Votes: 0

Moliere

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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself. Votes: 0

Oprah Winfrey

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The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. Votes: 0

Quintilian

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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. Votes: 0

William Feather

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Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. Votes: 0

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed. Votes: 0

Richard Whately

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The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone Votes: 0

Richard Sennett

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If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they? Votes: 0

Colin Beavan

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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. Votes: 0

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him. Votes: 0

Socrates

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I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them. Votes: 0

Jimmy Carter

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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. Votes: 0

Seneca

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Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world. Votes: 0

Silvia Tennenbaum

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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. Votes: 0

John Petit-Senn

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The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. Votes: 0

Samuel Richardson

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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you. Votes: 0

Harold Bloom

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Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today. Votes: 0

Meredith Willson

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I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating? Votes: 0

Karen Hawkins

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All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price. Votes: 0

Amin Maalouf

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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Votes: 0

Lord Chesterfield

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Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body. Votes: 0

Elsa Schiaparelli

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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves. Votes: 0

Katherine Mansfield

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The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures Votes: 0

Democritus

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Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body. Votes: 0

Umar

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The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures. Votes: 0

Justin Martyr

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He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave. Votes: 0

Sonam Rinchen

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Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures! Votes: 0

Richard Branson

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The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. Votes: 0

Samuel Rogers

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Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them. Votes: 0

Lord Chesterfield

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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. Votes: 0

Nora Roberts

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The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. Votes: 0

John Lubbock

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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. Votes: 0

Alister E. McGrath

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Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. Votes: 0

John Zimmerman

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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. Votes: 0

Robertson Davies

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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. Votes: 0

Elbert Hubbard

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One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. Votes: 0

Jim Goad

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To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. Votes: 0

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. Votes: 0

Robertson Davies

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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?" Votes: 0

Novalis

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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it. Votes: 0

Busy Philipps

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Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. Votes: 0

Robertson Davies

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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. Votes: 0

Amos Bronson Alcott

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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? Votes: 0

Novalis

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Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold. Votes: 0

Emilia Lanier

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Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. Votes: 0

Richard Baxter

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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. Votes: 0

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. Votes: 0

Compton Mackenzie

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I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures. Votes: 0

Rick Astley

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To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. Votes: 0

Jane Rule

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Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. Votes: 0

Anna Brownell Jameson

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. Votes: 0

Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

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Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures. Votes: 0

Kelly Reichardt

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Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. Votes: 0

John Keats

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So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it Votes: 0

Darren Criss

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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For me, the most luxurious place is somewhere that allows you to feel emotions and pleasures. Votes: 0

Alain Ducasse

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Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it. Votes: 0

Nicholas Kristof

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Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime. Votes: 0

James Joyce

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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. Votes: 0

Aristippus

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I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself. Votes: 0

Margaret of Valois

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The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. Votes: 0

Jonathan Edwards

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Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. Votes: 0

Jeremy Taylor

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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, Votes: 0

Thomas Hardy

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Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. Votes: 0

William Bates

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Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. Votes: 0

Michael Broadbent

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Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. Votes: 0

David Brainerd

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Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. Votes: 0

Roger Zelazny

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Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins. Votes: 0

R. A. Torrey

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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. Votes: 0

Frederik Pohl

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures. Votes: 0

Timothy Leary

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The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. Votes: 0

Luc de Clapiers

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Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying. Votes: 0

Thomas Campion

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Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream. Votes: 0

John Keats

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Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. Votes: 0

Baltasar Gracian

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After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. Votes: 0

Pierre Corneille

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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. Votes: 0

George Gurdjieff

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One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833. Votes: 0

Jimmy Carter

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Votes: 0

A. J. Liebling

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And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. Votes: 0

Christopher Hitchens

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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. Votes: 0

Erastus Wiman

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We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs. Votes: 0

Roger Caras

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. Votes: 0

Herbert Spencer

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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. Votes: 0

Baruch Spinoza

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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none Votes: 0

David Brainerd

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The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23 Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars. Votes: 0

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Votes: 0

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. Votes: 0

Luc de Clapiers

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...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. Votes: 0

Ilona Andrews

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. Votes: 0

Sophie Swetchine

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I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. Votes: 0

Mary Anne Radmacher

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Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really. Votes: 0

Arthur Darvill

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One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being. Votes: 0

Evangeline Lilly

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Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them. Votes: 0

Dorie Greenspan

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I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby. Votes: 0

Mia Maestro

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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. Votes: 0

Barbara Taylor Bradford

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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows. Votes: 0

Philip James Bailey

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Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. Votes: 0

Damian Lewis

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I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them. Votes: 0

Epicurus

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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. Votes: 0

Billy Collins

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A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael

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Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own. Votes: 0

Tibor Fischer

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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. Votes: 0

Plato

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The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures. Votes: 0

Elisabeth Leamy

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One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. Votes: 0

Joseph Epstein

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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. Votes: 0

John Howard Payne

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well! Votes: 0

David Berg

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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure â attractively packaged but inferior in content. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny. Votes: 0

Eleanor Farjeon

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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life. Votes: 0

Julia Child

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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. Votes: 0

Muhammad Ali

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Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. Votes: 0

Sei Shonagon

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An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. Votes: 0

Isaac D'Israeli

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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them. Votes: 0

Henry Dwight Sedgwick

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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet. Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. Votes: 0

Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end. Votes: 0

Agnes Repplier

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I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives. Votes: 0

Grace Helbig

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in. Votes: 0

Tom Felton

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Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling. Votes: 0

Robert Motherwell

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Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. Votes: 0

Thrity Umrigar

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The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. Votes: 0

Frank Scoblete

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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. Votes: 0

George Plimpton

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The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. Votes: 0

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones. Votes: 0

Jean Webster

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We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. Votes: 0

Philip Massinger

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We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day. Votes: 0

Ninon de L'Enclos

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I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. Votes: 0

Horace

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The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. Votes: 0

Swami Brahmananda

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I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14. Votes: 0

Joyce Brothers

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I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips Votes: 0

Clement Freud

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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. Votes: 0

William Wycherley

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One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. Votes: 0

Thalassa Cruso

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I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need. Votes: 0

Neil Diamond

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Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever. Votes: 0

David Jeremiah

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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. Votes: 0

Slavoj Zizek

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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! Votes: 0

Confucius

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Humanity is completely consumed with the pleasures of the flesh; we have been self-programmed to lose consciousness of the soul. Votes: 0

Felix Wantang

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Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Votes: 0

Isaac Watts

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It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. Votes: 0

John Tillotson

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The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things. Votes: 0

Veronique Vienne

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Thought is the greatest of pleasures "pleasure itself is only imagination"have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. Votes: 0

Francois Fenelon

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Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes. Votes: 0

Mary Norris

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I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures. Votes: 0

Anne Frank

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If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. Votes: 0

Plato

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We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. Votes: 0

John C. Maxwell

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But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, 'Real Housewives.' Votes: 0

Grace Helbig

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You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth. Votes: 0

Jean Racine

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All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does. Votes: 0

Julius Rosenwald

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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks. Votes: 0

Matthew Henry

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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world Votes: 0

Alison Lurie

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My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. Votes: 0

Tracy Letts

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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. Votes: 0

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. Votes: 0

Cesare Pavese

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One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them. Votes: 0

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ... Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures. Votes: 0

Harriet McBryde Johnson

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Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion. Votes: 0

Christopher Knight

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Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority. Votes: 0

Erwin W. Lutzer

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The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits. Votes: 0

Rajeev Kurapati

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I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. Votes: 0

Colleen McCullough

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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. Votes: 0

Anthony Trollope

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Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion." Votes: 0

Christopher Knight

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In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures. Votes: 0

David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures. Votes: 0

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. Votes: 0

Alfred de Musset

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I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. Votes: 0

Susan Orlean

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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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God sent as a revelation the gift of dance so his creation may experience one of the divine pleasures of paradise. Votes: 0

Shah Asad Rizvi

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The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." Votes: 0

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding. Votes: 0

Russell Baker

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The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide. Votes: 0

Subhash Kak

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It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. Votes: 0

Lillian Hellman

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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. Votes: 0

Leigh Hunt

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As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it. Votes: 0

Erin McKeown

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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget! Votes: 0

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires. Votes: 0

Max Muller

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We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality. Votes: 0

Ian Gardner

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It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life. Votes: 0

Judith Viorst

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But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl. Votes: 0

Edward Young

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One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food Votes: 0

Edna Lewis

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Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes Votes: 0

Luigi Pirandello

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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. Votes: 0

M. Night Shyamalan

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You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style Votes: 0

Rebecca Solnit

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Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures. Votes: 0

Tony DiTerlizzi

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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. Votes: 0

Aristippus

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No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures. Votes: 0

Epicurus

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Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer. Votes: 0

Thomas E. Mann

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No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else. Votes: 0

Lord Chesterfield

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It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm. Votes: 0

Aleksandar Hemon

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The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones. Votes: 0

Giacomo Casanova

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all. Votes: 0

Charles Lamb

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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet. Votes: 0

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

Richard Steele

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Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them? Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game. Votes: 0

Shane Black

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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death. Votes: 0

Anita Diament

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Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures. Votes: 0

William Gilmore Simms

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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them. Votes: 0

Tony Judt

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When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew. Votes: 0

Thomas Moore

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The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion. Votes: 0

Ivan Panin

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Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face. Votes: 0

Jeremy Taylor

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When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures. Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more. Votes: 0

Masaru Ibuka

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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. Votes: 0

Tryon Edwards

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Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures Votes: 0

Fulton J. Sheen

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When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself. Votes: 0

Roger Housden

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Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is. Votes: 0

Clive Barker

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As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name. Votes: 0

Sarada Devi

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...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find? Votes: 0

Elizabeth Kostova

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He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses. Votes: 0

Alphonsus Liguori

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One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden. Votes: 0

Steven Strogatz

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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest. Votes: 0

Thomas Huxley

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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has. Votes: 0

Olive Schreiner

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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. Votes: 0

G. I. Gurdjieff

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One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours. Votes: 0

Paul Theroux

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor. Votes: 0

Clifton Fadiman

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A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. Votes: 0

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before. Votes: 0

Kin Hubbard

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking? Votes: 0

Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington

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The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining. Votes: 0

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances. Votes: 0

Coventry Patmore

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I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have. Votes: 0

Frances Mayes

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It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever. Votes: 0

Alexandre Dumas

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I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life. Votes: 0

Suzanne Somers

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My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives. Votes: 0

Suresh Raina

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on. Votes: 0

Mae West

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One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex. Votes: 0

Nick Bantock

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How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures? Votes: 0

Hermann Hesse

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Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.

Christopher John Farley

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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

Kenneth Clark

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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Louisa May Alcott

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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

Emile Zola

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There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

Alberto Manguel

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He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

George Santayana

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One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

Lafcadio Hearn

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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Richard Powers

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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

Alexandre Dumas

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Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

John Milton

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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

Anais Nin

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Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.

Mary Oliver

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Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Samuel Johnson

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It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

W. H. Auden

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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

Aristotle

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The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

Bill Vaughan

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Steve Kangas

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I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

Thomas Jefferson

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The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

Alison Gopnik

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Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Michel de Montaigne

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Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

Nora Roberts

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Heaven is here to stay and sex is here to stay! We'll be able to enjoy many of these so-called fleshly pleasures on the other side, like Jesus did!

David Berg

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A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.

Fred Bear

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I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Mary Russell Mitford

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The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

Sam Storms

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We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we canât slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Alan Watts

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To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

Barbara Tuchman

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GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

Brother Lawrence

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Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

Kent Bach

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There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

Gautama Buddha

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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Alexander Pope

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You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

C. S. Lewis

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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

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It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

Baltasar Gracian

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moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

Barbara Holland

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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Douglas William Jerrold

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Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may...

Stephanie Mills

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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Vladimir Nabokov

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It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

Compay Segundo

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.

Li Ka-shing

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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

Hippocrates

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The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

John Ford

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Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

Dorothy Wordsworth

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Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.

Nigella Lawson

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I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Al Capone

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One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Simone Weil

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I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

Johannes Kepler

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the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

Richard L. Evans

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Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.

Ruth Graham

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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

Dorothy Parker

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A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

Freya Stark

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One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

Julia Child

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

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I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

Kate DiCamillo

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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Philip Yancey

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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

Richard Steele

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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

Francis Quarles

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Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

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The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life,

Barbara Kruger

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It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

William Shenstone

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Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

Samuel Johnson

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Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the world of erotic fiction. [on Pleasures of the Night ]

Toni Blake

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And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

William Shakespeare

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Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

Allan Bloom

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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Edmund Burke

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Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

John Gay

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Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.

Max Lucado

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Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.

Thomas Gray

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Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

Bertrand Russell

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Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

Winston Churchill

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I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

James Ellis

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No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.

John Keats

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Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

Joseph Addison

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One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

Donald Barthelme

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I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered ...

Freya Stark

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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

John Donne

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While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it.

Natalie MacLean

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Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

Samuel Johnson

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I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures.

Denise Duhamel

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The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

Jerome K. Jerome

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A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work...

Benjamin Spock

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

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I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

Henry David Thoreau

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One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

Jean Baudrillard

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Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Dmitri Mendeleev

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In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

Edward Gibbon

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How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

William Davenant

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The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

Harold Bloom

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He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Samuel Johnson

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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

Michel de Montaigne

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I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

Annie Hill

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We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.

Frederick Lenz

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Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

Thomas Campion

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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them

Leo Tolstoy

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Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that noman enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

Lord Chesterfield

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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Mary Caroline Richards

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They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

William Golding

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One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.

Amanda Filipacchi

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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

George Santayana

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I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

John Updike

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I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

Diana Vreeland

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To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

David McCullough

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What I feel personally and what I can act are two different things. Maybe one of the great pleasures of my job is being able to inhabit worlds that you are never going to inhabit personally.

Helen Mirren

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The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

Madame de Stael

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The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

Richard Sharp

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Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

Maria Edgeworth

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It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

Euripides

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The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

Julian Fellowes

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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

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The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

George Friedman

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There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

Rumi

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So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Samuel Johnson

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In all our losses, all our gains, In all our pleasures, all our pains, The life of life is: Love remains. In every change from good to ill,- If love continues still, Let happen then what will.

Theodore Tilton

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We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

William Safire

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It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

H. P. Blavatsky

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The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

John Quincy Adams

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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Seneca the Younger

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Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.

David Berg

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The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

John Calvin

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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

Rumi

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A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.

Charles Simic

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Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that reflect our tastes and pleasures Making a home is a form of creativity open to everyone.

Terence Conran

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Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.

Dorothy Stang

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Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.

Ibn Ata Allah

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Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Gautama Buddha

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Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

George Eliot

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I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they're doing is all right.

Victoria Tennant

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One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

Amanda Filipacchi

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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

Agnes Repplier

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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

Epicurus

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When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove - The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

Lord Byron

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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Pema Chodron

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High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

Samuel Johnson

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Mark Twain

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No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.

John Alfred Langford

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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

John Selden

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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

Bertrand Russell

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A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.

Robert Benchley

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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

John Lancaster Spalding

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There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...

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I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page

John Updike

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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

Hermann Hesse

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As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.

Ann M. Martin

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The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

Cyril Connolly

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There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. "In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

John Piper

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For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.

Anthony Capella

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The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

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Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!

Hildegard of Bingen

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Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.

Andre Maurois

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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

Jane Austen

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Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Andrew Marvell

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The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

George A. Sheehan

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Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind; the source of the truest pleasures, the fountain of the sublimest and most perfect happiness.

Mary Collyer

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Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves.

Rene Crevel

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Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

Jonathan Swift

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Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.

Kelly Bishop

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Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?

Herman Melville

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Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.

Richard Sibbes

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I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.

Cus D'Amato

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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

Roland Barthes

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Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

Edgar Guest

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The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

Joseph Addison

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Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are âpatches of Godlightâ in the woods of our experience.

C. S. Lewis

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Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.

Hermann Hesse

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I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

Jay McInerney

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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me"¦if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me"¦

Helen Keller

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Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what oneâs fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Bernard Malamud

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Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.

John Adams

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What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men.

Tertullian

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It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

Maria Luisa Bombal

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Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.

Thomas Bastard

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You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.

Thomas Merton

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Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.

Charles Baxter

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Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.

Heloise

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Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?

Steven Erikson

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Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

Swami Vivekananda

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A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.

Charles de Saint-Evremond

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I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

Cass Gilbert

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We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

Michel de Montaigne

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My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Melancholy suicide. âThis is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;

Emile Durkheim

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Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

P. D. James

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I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

Joseph Addison

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All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

M. F. K. Fisher

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What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.

Rama Swami

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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book...

Thomas S. Monson

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For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

Craig Claiborne

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Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

Richard Baxter

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And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

Khalil Gibran

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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.

Mahatma Gandhi

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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.

Saul Bellow

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The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

Fernand Leger

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An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

Storm Jameson

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As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

Aristotle

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The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Louis L'Amour

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Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making should enter the work.

Norman Lock

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It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life....

Alexis de Tocqueville

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This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did. When loved ones are nearly all gone on ahead, then all the riches or fame or pleasures of this world are baubles and trash.

John R. Rice

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Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.

Marcel Proust

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Western civilisation, the Ã©litists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures.

Richard Davenport-Hines

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Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.

John Crowley

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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has": "I have had, you see, to resort more and more to very small, almost invisible pleasures, little extras. You've no idea how great one becomes with these little details, it's incredible how one grows.

Witold Gombrowicz

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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

Jeremy Taylor

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Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

Bertolt Brecht

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With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

C. S. Lewis

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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

Camille Paglia

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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

Ramakrishna

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After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status. Here are some celebrity quotes about Christmas. You will find that just like everybody else, celebrities also enjoy the little pleasures of Christmas.

Bob Hope

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