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“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

“If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.”

Ifs World Giving Should Stills Soul Joy Pleasure Son Amount Comfort Give Me Gods Will My Soul Cups Ease Drains Thirsty Dregs

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

“The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.”

Giving Feelings Literature Pleasure Surprise Favors Pleasant Worthless Pleasant Surprises

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.”

Men Giving Social Pleasure Boys Growing Seeing Standing Everyday Clubs Managers Joining Youngsters

Author:Jock Stein

“Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.”

Men Giving Should Mind Pleasure Wine Readiness

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.”

Giving Pleasure Animal Give Me Cameras Animal Rights Animal Welfare Animal Cruelty Animal Life Animal Abuse Wildlife Animals Abused Animals

Author:James Stewart

“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”

Ifs Way Giving Young Turns Girl Sex Pleasure Attention Boys Careers Return Sexuality Expected Popularity Young Women Career Success

Author:Cris Mazza

“I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.”

Way Giving Lasts Force Pleasure Oneself Monsters Surrender Strongest

Author:Barry Webster

“Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.”

Men World Giving Kind Enjoy Pleasure Example All Kinds Items Adventurous Earthquakes Shipwreck Knowledge Of The World Mutiny Unpleasant Experiences

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure”

Giving Pleasure Effort Intellectual Give Me Enormous

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.”

Want Giving Feels Writing Reading Pleasure Give Me Distraction Privileged Bonus

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.”

Ifs Giving Feels Ideas Culture Pleasure Illusion Obsession

Book:Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

“Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every move. If you value writing, they will learn quickly to value it too, as something they can give to someone, or receive with pleasure from someone else.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Children Age Moving Young Values Pleasure Watches Generous Young Age

Book:Your Child's Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age

Source: Your Child's Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age

“Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.”

Ifs Needs Giving Earth Life Is Strong Pleasure Taken Weak

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”

“I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.”

Giving Form Pleasure Heard Involved Argument Contrary Favors Convincing

Author:Gore Vidal

“Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.”

Giving States Pleasure Caught Respectability

Author:Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

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