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“Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.”

Mind Art Pain Joy Hate Pleasure Grief Balance Fairs Train Bounds Dues Hope Love

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

“It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.”

Persons Pleasure Crime Errors Committed Dues Guilty Acknowledge Sensible Reproof

Book:(v. 3-8) Comprising correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American Revolution

Source: (v. 3-8) Comprising correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American Revolution

“If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.”

Ifs World Able Pleasure Ignorance Prove Dues Gratification Extravagant Insensible Willfulness

Author:Washington Allston

“Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.”

Two Soul Body Might Form Desire Pleasure Thirds Affection Dues Seats Entity Distress Aversion Employing Fear And Courage

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)

“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present”

Reason Today Past Artist Values Pleasure Interesting Quality Painting Essentials Concern Historical Dues Manners Representation Historical Value

Book:The Painters of Modern Life

Source: The Painters of Modern 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

“Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.”

“Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.”

Humans Wells Use Wisdom Pleasure Numbers Talent Exercise Ill Dues Sweetness Alleviate Human Wisdom

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.”

Persons Pain Pleasure Feet Youth Glory Claims Dare Dues Vanity Associates

Author:Francois Fenelon

“I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .”

“God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.”

Giving Soul Body Causes Pleasure Subjects Judging Kings Lows Raises Dues Judged Casting Soul And Body

Author:King James I