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“By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.”

Source: The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes

“Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.”

Men Ideas Sports Pleasure Break Chains Submit

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.”

Littles Pleasure Hearing Chains Ems

Author:George Farquhar

“Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!”

Men Has Beens Hands Purpose Voice Pleasure Plans Sweet Labor Stones Lonely Died Chains Bubbles Weary Deaf Scorned

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.”

Men Giving Humans Long Ends Enough Action Pain Together Suffering Pleasure Events Consequence Chains This Life Providence Linked

Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

“If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Used Winning Lost Pleasure Flower Broken Ruins Chains Parting Gloves Forgetfulness Faded Tokens

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.”

Felt Pleasure Poverty Sweet Chains

Book:William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

“When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.”

“There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.”

Pain Lines Pleasure Fine Balls Chains Fine Lines Pain And Pleasure Love Pain

Author:Brian Setzer