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Tag Name "Pleasures" (656)

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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
William Cowper
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Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
William Golding
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If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
Aldous Huxley
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Aldous Huxley
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
Aldous Huxley
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Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.
Alberto Manguel
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
Saul Bellow
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During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
Jean de la Bruyere
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I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.
William Melmoth
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
William Morris
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He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
Charles Caleb Colton
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We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.
William Safire
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It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
William Shenstone
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty more pleasurable still is rereading that book most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.
William T. Vollmann
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one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
William Wordsworth
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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.
William Wordsworth
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
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I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.
Willie Morris
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I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.
Willie Morris
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To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.
Don Davis
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
Adam Gopnik
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