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“If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.”

Ifs Men Kind Said Joy Wealth Pleasure Poor Pay Too Much Citizens Comfortable Fellows Sake Esteem Doing Good Gave Up Poor Man Benevolent Misers Accumulating Wealth

Book:Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

Source: Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

“The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.”

Want Giving Self Pleasure Humility Divine Highest Glory Esteem Majesty Neighbour Glory Of God Breadth Abjection

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.”

Mind May Made Friendship Pleasure Sorrow Pity Esteem Contempt

Book:The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays

Source: The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays

“Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

“To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.”

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.”

Want Kind Next Language Pleasure Failing Objects Mark Ill Delight Contrary Esteem This Life Manners Temper Shocking Flattery Hypocrite Doing Good Deserving Amiable Greatest Pleasures

Author:Samuel Richardson