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“There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.”

Pleasure Sweet Pure Bitter

Author:Ovid

“The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.”

Artist Order Pleasure Imagine Produce Bitter Imagine That Portraits Bitter Experience

Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.”

Years Ends Pleasure Existence Moral Poverty Intellectual Mere Pursuit Bitter Vain Sufficient Restless Doom Vacuity

Book:Works: The strenuous life

Source: Works: The strenuous life

“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.”

Thinking Self Facts Mother Opportunity Pleasure Cases Achieve Identity Self Worth Bitter Developing Receiving Sense Of Self Housewife

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.”

Heart Said Pain Remember Night Pleasure Sadness Cold Sad Complaining Bitter Mourning Remember When Day And Night December Bleak Sad Heart

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

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