Pleasure Quotes
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You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has deep knowledge to impart. He makes friends easily and doesn't hold a grudge. He enjoys simple pleasures and takes each day as it comes. Like a true Zen master he eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is tired. He's not hung up about sex. Best of all, he befriends me with an unconditional love that human beings would do well to imitate.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.
