Pleasure Quotes
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
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Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.
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Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.
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I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
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If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.
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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
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I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
