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“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”

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Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.”

Life Made Life Is Pleasure Poor Rich Aim Possession Noble Subservient Ignoble

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.”

Knows Life Made Life Is Pleasure Sweet Life Is Like Drains Cocktails Cherries Dregs Sweet Things

Author:Edgar Guest

“A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.”

Life Hands Life Is Interest Pleasure Return Demand Treasure Borrowed Shylock

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.”

Thinking Life Pleasure Journey Resorts Arrivals

Book:Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

Source: Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”

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Author:Maxim Gorky

“Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]”

Knows Life Years Mean Doe Pleasure

Author:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.”

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Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.”

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Book:Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard

Source: Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard

“Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.”

Love Life Lasts Pleasure Love Life Fleeting Pledge

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.”

Life Pleasure Duty Boredom Resentment

Author:Mason Cooley

“When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved.”

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Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.”

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Author:Pietro Metastasio

“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.”

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Author:James Goldsmith

“I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”

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Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”