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"pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way." »A. Lawrence Lowell
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"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency." »William Carlos Williams
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"pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation." »Coleridge
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"Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure." »Sol Hurok
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"Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure." »Sol Hurok
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"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose." »Charles Baudelaire
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"None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life." »James Goldsmith
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"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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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." »Albert Einstein
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"Envy is a vice that would pose a man to tell what it should be liked for. Other vices we assume for that we falsely suppose they bring us either pleasure, profit, or honour. But in envy who is it can find any of these? Instead of pleasure, we vex and gall ourselves. Like cankered brass, it only eats itself, nay, discolours and renders it noisome. When some one told Agis that those of his neighbour?s family did envy him, ?Why, then,? says he, ?they have a double vexation?one, with their own evil, the other, at my prosperity.?" »Feltham
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"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure." »Hermann Hesse
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"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure." »Michel de Montaigne
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"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it." »Mary Wilson Little
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"I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do." »Norman R. Augustine
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"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it." »Mary Wilson Little
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"Even pleasure itself is a toil." »Manilius
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"He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure." »Chinese
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"Variety is the soul of pleasure." »Aphra Behn
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"The pleasure of love is in loving." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." »Alfred Mercier
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"I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Reminiscing success gives more pleasure than the moment itself!!!!" »Siddharth Astir
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"A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered." »C. S. Lewis
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"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings." »Euripides
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"pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily." »Epicurus
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"Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about." »Yiddish Proverb
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"As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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