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“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony”

Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

“From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.”

Long Desire Enjoyment Plunge Fulfilment

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!”

Long Night Enjoy Thee Enjoyment Long Nights

Book:The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies

Source: The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies

“It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.”

Writing Littles Long Has Beens Strong Grows Sleep Poor Long Time Affection Enjoyment Exquisite Lament

Book:Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.”

World Long Figures Source Cease Enjoyment Reasonable Maps Blank Animated Voyages

Book:Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary

Source: Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary