Pleasure Quotes
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I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.
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On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand it is a pleasure to help those who feel worse than you.
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No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.
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Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.
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I mean loyalty - you know, look, first we serve the people. I've always looked at that. You serve the people first. But having said that, you never forget who's in charge. You never forget who the CEO of a country is when you decide to serve. And so everyone works at the pleasure of the president. And that's what, you know, we have to remember is if he doesn't feel comfortable, he can do something about it.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.
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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
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Buying is a profound pleasure.
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Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.
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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation...
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A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
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There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.
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Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
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I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.
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Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while other are too numb to absorb new experiences – or to be alert to signs of real danger. When the smoke detectors of the brain malfunction, people no longer run when they should be trying to escape or fight back when they should be defending themselves.
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Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
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..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
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When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.
