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“There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

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Book:Either/or

Source: Either/or

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”

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Book:A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments

Source: A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments

“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”

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Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

Source: The Middle Span

“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”

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Author:George A. Sheehan

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”

“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”