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“Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.”

Pleasure Essence Cups Immortal Sparkling Beads

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.”

Way Littles States Enjoy Pleasure Essence Communicate Satisfied Enjoyment Customs Creeds

Author:Walter Bagehot

“Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.”

Source: The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study

“The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.”

Pleasure Essence Spontaneity

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.”

Long Has Beens Moments Wisdom Pain Form Pleasure Blood Objects Long Time Labor Essence Dull Melancholy Cheerful

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you can change without trying. I'm saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.”

Trying Jesus Enjoy Pleasure Effort Essence Harder Enjoyment Purity Empowering Followers

Author:Sam Storms

“Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.”

Age Action Pleasure Civilization Drama Essence Tongue Barbarism Transcendentalism

Author:George P. Baker

“There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”

Source: West with the Night