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“During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.”

Courses Wish Enjoy Natural Pleasure Virtue Our Lives Sake Encounters Abandon Now And Then Delightful Forbidden Inviting

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.”

Knows Women Pleasure Study Position Instruments Strings Delightful Trembling Keyboards Capricious

Book:Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

“This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.”

Looks Dream Light Fall Forget Pleasure Existence Wonder Arms Circles Instant Toil Delightful Our Dreams Oblivion Folds Cradle Parts Of Life Infancy Weariness

Book:Pericles and Aspasia

Source: Pericles and Aspasia

“In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.”

World Heart Desire Answers Pleasure This World Expectations Raised Pursuit Enjoyment Anticipation Sweetness Delightful Worldly Anticipate Forethought Worldly Pleasures

Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...

“We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.”

Heart Pleasure Sweetness Delightful Worldly Anticipate Forethought Worldly Pleasures

Author:John Tillotson

“The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few of its many pleasures. Amanda Craig has created a hot shimmery climate in which a cast of old friends, quirky family members and naughty children who make love potions come to know themselves and their hearts. A delightful brew.”

Knows Heart Children Pleasure Members Hot Climate Casts Observation Description Making Love Delightful Idleness Foreigners Old Friends Naughty Family Members Quirky Amanda

Author:Jane Hamilton

“No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.”

Pleasure Communication Absolutes Delight Delightful Without Communication

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?”

Heart Sometimes Age Sports Pleasure Childhood Laughter Instinct Lips Delightful Indulge Children Love

Book:Emile

Source: Emile

“The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.”

Action Order Pleasure Easier Vices Valuable Remembered Virtuous Delightful Complacency

Author:Thomas Merton

“The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.”

May Prayer Pleasure Common Study Growing Gratitude Benefits Profit Communicate Portions Delightful Boundless Psalms Constrain

Book:The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

Source: The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms