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Edward Young
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| "Ah that such sweet things should be fleet, Such fleet things
sweet!" | |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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| "Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come." | |
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Aristotle
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| "I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to
pleasure." | |
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John Davison Rockefeller
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| "I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to
do." | |
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Don Herold
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| "I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other
things." | |
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Walter Elias Disney
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| "I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chatted all the way, But left me
none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And
ne"er word said she But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow
walked with me!" | |
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Robert Browning Hamilton
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| "Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and
self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is
surrounded by dissipating temptations." | |
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I Ching
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| "Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and
soda-water the day after." | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those
tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don"t
collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don"t really mean
anything." | |
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Norman Lear
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| "Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling
himself to it." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are
increased by repetition, approved by reflection, And strengthened by
enjoyment." | |
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Nathaniel Cotton
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| "No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of
truth." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "No profit grows where is no pleasure ta"en: In brief, sir, study
what you most affect." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the
other." | |
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Jane Austen
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| "One should guard against preaching to young people success in the
customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work
in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the
knowledge of the value of the result to the community." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Pleasure is the bait of sin." | |
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Plato
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| "Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest
blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its blossom
is shed! Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white - then melts for
ever." | |
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Robert Burns
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| "Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure
no being that lives." | |
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John Zimmerman
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| "Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,? Sweet is pleasure after
pain." | |
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John Dryden
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| "Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous and the expense
damnable." | |
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Phillip Dormer Stanhope
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| "Variety is the soul of pleasure." | |
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Aphra Behn
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