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“Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.”

Way Character Use Bigs Courses Differences Pleasure Levels Particular Length Vocabulary

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.”

Source: History of Greece

“But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.”

Knows Differences Pleasure Danger Prize Hardship Tempted Shrinks

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.”

Mind States Age Differences Pleasure Quality Conditions Music Is Seasons Sacred Distinction Productive Temper Secular Anguish

Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion

Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion

“And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.”

World Trying I Can Two Pain Three Differences Church Space Pleasure Five Four Football Taste Smell Senses Kicks Bells Lemons Five Senses Limes Chimes Tweens Church Bells

Author:Andy Partridge

“There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.”

“How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure.”

Men May Use Political Differences Pleasure Principles Products Degrees Labor Slavery Property Deny Former Latter Ownership

Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets

Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets

“All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.”

World Mean Ends Differences Pleasure Opinion Agree

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.”

Ifs Pain Differences Pleasure Gods Will Devoted Pain And Pleasure

Book:The Practice of the Presence of God

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God

“The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.”

Differences Pleasure Inspiring Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary Life Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things Extraordinary Life

Author:Veronique Vienne

“I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality. But it's been so much fun! It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”

World Way Giving Done Fun Differences Pleasure Giving Up Curiosity Enormous Making A Difference Protest Mortality Making A Difference In The World

Author:Deborah Meier

“There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.”

Long Differences Pleasure Huge Connections Impact Instant Lasting Shallow Applause Long Lasting Lasting Impact

Author:Seth

“The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.”

World Whole Jesus Differences Pleasure Forever Whole World Fleeting World Life

Author:John Piper

“Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.”

Source: The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism