Pleasure Quotes
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Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.
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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.
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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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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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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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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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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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 greatest pleasure of life is love.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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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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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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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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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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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.
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You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
