William Cowper Quotes
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
Nate Corddry
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
Rachel Cusk
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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
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
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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
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
Victor Mature
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig
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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
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
G. Willow Wilson
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Rachel Bilson
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Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
Thomas Carlyle
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The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
Ashoke Sen
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The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.
T. J. Oshie
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Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. He would not let them break him. He would hold together against anything and all. If only they gave him sufficient time to make ready, he knew he could defeat pain. It turned out they gave him sufficient time (it was months before the Machine was ready). But they broke him anyway.
William Goldman
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
William Cowper