William Cowper Quotes
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman -
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark -
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel Johnson -
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon -
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Harold Wilson
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard -
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Vernon Lee -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark -
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
Walter Duranty -
There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
Orison Swett Marden -
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie -
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
Natalie Merchant
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Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.
Alan Alda -
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
William Congreve -
I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.
Pablo Picasso -
I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.
Eudora Welty -
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
William Cowper