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“Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase”
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“Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is”
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“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
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“Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.”
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“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
Stendhal Quotes |
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“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
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“O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!”
Alexander, the Great Quotes Source: quoted by Carlyle in "Essays on Voltaire"
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“It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with
delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed
from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous
study?”
Jane Austen (signed first book "By a Lady") Quotes Source: Pride and Prejudice (ch. XIV)
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“Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem;
There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground
but holds some joy of silence or of sound,
Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.”
Laman Blanchard Quotes Source: Sonnet VII--Hidden Joys
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“Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes Source: The Art of Poetry (canto III, l. 374)
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“But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white--then melts forever.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Tam o' Shanter (l. 59)
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“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure
my business.”
Aaron Burr Quotes Source: Letter to Pichon
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“Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 1)
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 178)
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“In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not
devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into
immorality.
[Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis
omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem
delabamur.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Officiis (I, 29)
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“In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum
est.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Oratore (III, 25)
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“Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec
habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Senectute (XII)
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“Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook.
[Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea
videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Senectute (XIII, 44)
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“Who pleases one against his will.”
William Congreve Quotes Source: The Way of the World--Epilogue
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“That, though on pleasure she was bent,
She had a frugal mind.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: History of John Gilpin (st. 8)
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“Pleasure admitted in undue degree
Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Progress of Error (l. 267)
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“Rich the treasure,
Sweet the pleasure,
Sweet is pleasure after pain.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Alexander's Feast (l. 58)
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“I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser,
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me!”
Robert Browning Hamilton Quotes Source: Along the Road
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