Pleasures Quotes
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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.
William Ellery Channing -
And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.
Ezra Pound
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There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
Angela Thirkell -
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.
Jane Austen -
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.
Georges Rouault -
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
Alister E. McGrath -
One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.
Jimmy Carter -
In times like these, we seek comfort in the little pleasures, things we're glad man invented. It doesn't matter where you're from -- or how you feel.. There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.
Fábio Moon
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I like a man willing to pay the price of his pleasures.
Alice Borchardt -
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.
Marcel Proust -
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.
Amanda Filipacchi -
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Samuel Richardson -
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
Alexandre Dumas -
Don't feel guilty about the pleasures you take in the things you enjoy.
Austin Kleon
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I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.
Ashlee Nicole "Nikki" DeLoach -
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.
Gautama Buddha -
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
Lord Byron -
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
Andrew Michael Ramsay -
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Confucius -
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
Cesare Pavese -
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.
Elisabeth Leamy -
Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.
Emilia Lanier -
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.
Richard Powers