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“Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 305)
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“Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 365)
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“For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher design than to enjoy his state.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 201)
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“Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are
ways and means of compounding such matters.”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Tartuffe (act IV, sc. 5)
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“It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.”
Edith Nesbit Quotes Source: Five of Use, and Madeline
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“Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 79)
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“Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be
interrupted.”
Jean Paul Richter Quotes Source: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (ch. VIII)
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“I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be
described.
[Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne
se decrit point.]”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes Source: Confessions (VIII)
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“You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things
which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by
them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other
account than mere delight.”
John Ruskin Quotes Source: Stones of Venice (vol. I, ch. II)
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“A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
[Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Epistles (XXIII, 3, 4)
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“How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ;
And how with the longest day enjoy!
[Lat., Quam vellem longas tecum requiescere noctes,
Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.]”
Albius Tibullus Quotes Source: Carmina (III, 6, 53)
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“Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.”
Denis Waitley Quotes |
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“Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.”
Lyman Bryson Quotes |
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“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes |
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“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.”
James M. Barrie Quotes |
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“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”
Aldous Huxley Quotes |
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“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”
Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes |
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“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.”
Novalis Quotes |
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“Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.”
Matt Biondi Quotes |
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“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
George Santayana Quotes |
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“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
Katharine Hepburn Quotes |
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“If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.”
Glen Buck Quotes |
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“People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.”
John Sculley Quotes |
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“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”
Humboldt Quotes |
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