Pleasant Quotes
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Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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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.
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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.”
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Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.
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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.
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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.
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The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.
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It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
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I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.
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I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
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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.
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I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
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Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
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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.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
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Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
