Best pleasure & errors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.”

Ifs Knows Needs Lasts Past Pleasure Errors Each Day Critique

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.”

Should Literature Pleasure Modern Taught Errors Contemporary Absurd Monkeys Curriculum English Literature Contemporary Literature Modern English

Author:Rebecca West

“The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.”

Giving Seems Pain Evil Pleasure Mankind Majority Errors Being Real

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“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

“One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.”

Mind May Art Moving Pleasure Art Is Connections Errors

Author:Donald Barthelme

“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”

Truth Lying Pleasure Sea Adventure Honor Battle Standing Window Errors Ships Wander Shore Castles Mist Tempest

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

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