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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. – Douglas William Jerrold	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 12 years ago
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before. – Kin Hubbard	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. – Seneca	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. – Percy Bysshe Shelley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment. – Dean Koontz, Watchers	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All pleasures contain an element of sadness. – Jonathan Eibeschutz	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. – Tyron Edwards	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. – Madame de Lambert	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. – William E. Channing	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other. – Swami Brahnmananda	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed. – Plato	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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