Pleasure Quotes
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That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.
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It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
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I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
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We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.
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Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.
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Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
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We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.
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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
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True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
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As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.
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No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.
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Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.
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When the baby emerged and I saw her, black-haired, a violet organism that, full of energy, writhed and wailed, I felt a physical pleasure so piercing that I still know no other pleasure that compares to it.
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I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
