Pleasant Quotes
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Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.
Walter Mason Camp
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“He who endures distress, will be granted joys; and he who bears with unpleasant things, will not be deprived of the pleasant.”
Nilus of Sinai
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It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.
Kate Langley Bosher
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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
Thomas Carlyle
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I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
Rene Rivkin
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Ray Bradbury
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Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
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My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.
George Sarton
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I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
Caryl Chessman
