Short quotations about, pleasure - Page 2

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What is written without effort is i…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

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What is written without effort is i…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

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What we call pleasure, and rightly …

15 Feb , 2011  

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. Great short quote and quotation by: Cicero , Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)

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Alfred Mercier

What we learn with pleasure we neve…

15 Feb , 2011  

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. Great short quote and quotation by: Alfred Mercier ,

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John Steinbeck, East of Eden

When a man comes to die, no matter …

15 Feb , 2011  

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying […]

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Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.

When desire, having rejected reason…

15 Feb , 2011  

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . Great short quote and quotation by: Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus. , Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

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Whoever feels pain in hearing a goo…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Benjamin Franklin , US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, […]

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Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once,…

15 Feb , 2011  

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen , English novelist (1775 – 1817)

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Robert Southey

Would you who judge of the lawfulne…

19 Aug , 2010  

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to […]

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Voltaire

You despise books; you whose lives …

27 Apr , 2010  

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

You must learn some of my philosoph…

27 Apr , 2010  

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , English novelist (1775 – 1817)

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Michael Korda

Your chances of success are directl…

27 Apr , 2010  

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. Great short quote and quotation by: Michael Korda ,

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