Pleasant Quotes
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What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!
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You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
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It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
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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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“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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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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Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.
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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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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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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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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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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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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
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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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Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
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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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Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
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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.
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
