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“A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.”

Earth Pleasure Party Particular Disappointment Showers Spoil Trunks

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.”

Men May Pleasure Effects Produce Disappointment Various Exposed Coincidence Spontaneous Disagreeable Morbid Corresponding Vexation Moodiness

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.”

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

“To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.”

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Book:It's Been a Good Life

Source: It's Been a Good Life

“When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.”

People World Has Beens Reality Pain Young Imagination Pleasure Society Paint Disappointment Dues Paradise Realism Lively Pain And Pleasure Due Time

Book:Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Source: Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World