Pleasure Quotes
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
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There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
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Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.
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A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
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Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.
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The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
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After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
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Anticipation makes pleasure more intense...
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.
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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?
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She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.
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I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
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I don't make music to win awards. I learned a long time ago that the biggest pleasure I can have is hearing people sing my songs.
