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“The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?”

Source: Little Essays Toward Truth

“When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.”

People Thinking Men Facts Joy Sadness Son Genuine Ministers Cracked Wilson

Author:A. Scott Berg

“An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.”

Men Joy Enemy Flower Buried

Author:David Gemmell

“Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.”

Ifs Knows Men Joy Reading Left Taught Filled Loud Liturgy

Author:Charles W. Freeman, Jr.

“Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being”

“Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.”

Men May Form Joy Desire Poetry Sorrow Infinity August Persephone

Book:A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.”

Men Needs Sometimes Remember Happiness Joy Laughing Laughter Smile Laughs And Smiles Smile And Laughter Laughter And Smiles

Book:The Jester's Sword: How Aldebaran, the King's Son, Wore the Sheathed Sword of Conquest

Source: The Jester's Sword: How Aldebaran, the King's Son, Wore the Sheathed Sword of Conquest

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.”

Knows Men Heart Persons Matter Joy Opinion Sorrow Conversation Creatures Clean Conversion Denial Makers Godly Cleanliness Clean Heart

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.”

Men Joy Secret Forever Slander Robbery Sufferers Peace And Joy Kept Secrets

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.”

Men Should Reason Joy Artist Perfect Flower Masters Missions Accidents Painter Delusion No Reason Sentiments Puzzles Masterpiece Bud Philanthropist Alliteration

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.”

Ifs Men Kind Said Joy Wealth Pleasure Poor Pay Too Much Citizens Comfortable Fellows Sake Esteem Doing Good Gave Up Poor Man Benevolent Misers Accumulating Wealth

Book:Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

Source: Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”

Men Firsts States Joy Duty Sorrow Reflection Mercy

Author:William Shakespeare

“John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.”

Ifs Men Joy Forget Blood Hero Taste Noble Enterprise

Book:The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others

Source: The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others