Pleasure Quotes
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I`ve grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Lawana Blackwell
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If it`s very painful for you to criticize your friends - you`re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that`s the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Stendhal
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Novelty is the great parent of pleasure
Robert South
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes
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To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure
Portuguese Proverb
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato
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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing
Paul Chatfield
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Worley Montagu
Keywords: any :: as :: cheap :: entertainment :: is :: lasting :: no :: nor :: pleasure :: reading :: soSubject: Entertainment Quotes :: Pleasure QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Keywords: and :: angels :: babe :: between :: earth :: for :: house :: in :: innocence :: is :: link :: love :: men :: messenger :: of :: on :: peace :: place :: pleasure :: resting :: spring :: the :: wellSubject: Angels Quotes :: Babies Quotes :: Innocence Quotes :: Love Quotes :: Men Quotes :: Peace QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles
Mahatma Gandhi
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You can`t imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind
Juvenal
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John W. Gardner
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Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
John Lubbock
Keywords: affection :: affectionate :: afraid :: and :: are :: be :: by :: do :: give :: helped :: is :: kind :: love :: men :: money :: more :: not :: of :: pleasure :: present :: service :: showing :: sympathy :: tender :: than :: thoughtful :: warm :: will :: word :: yourSubject: Affection Quotes :: Character Quotes :: Kindness Quotes :: Love Quotes :: Sympathy Quotes :: Tenderness QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
Subject: Art QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t`were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honore de Balzac
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust
Diogenes
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All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it
Clara Ortega
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I would say that the surest measure of a man`s or a woman`s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse
Benjamin Spock
Keywords: and :: creates :: dignity :: for :: harmony :: he :: his :: in :: inspiration :: is :: joy :: man :: marriage :: maturity :: measure :: of :: or :: pleasure :: provides :: say :: spouse :: style :: surest :: that :: the :: woman :: wouldSubject: Dignity Quotes :: Harmony Quotes :: Joy Quotes :: Marriage Quotes :: Maturity Quotes :: Men and Women QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Anna Freud
Keywords: accept :: against :: allow :: and :: are :: because :: bit :: collide :: commend :: complaint :: dashed :: enjoy :: illusions :: instead :: it :: must :: of :: pain :: pieces :: pleasure :: reality :: save :: sometimes :: themselves :: therefore :: they :: to :: us :: we :: when :: which :: with :: withoutSubject: Illusion QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father
Anna Freud
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Samuel Johnson
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity
Germaine Greer
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