Pleasures Quotes
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Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.
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Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
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Everything up to and including Unknown Pleasures really existed only when the four of us were in a room together playing it. Not written down, not recorded, just from memory.
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The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
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Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.
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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
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Don't feel guilty about the pleasures you take in the things you enjoy.
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
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Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
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One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.
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The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more.
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Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.
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One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.
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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
