Pleasure Quotes
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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
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Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.
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If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.
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Life is a process not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
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A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
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Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
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Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.
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Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
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No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.
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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.
