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“What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps around and without sin and the Curse and all the pain, sorrow and crying! It will be pure pleasure to have children in Heaven!”

Children Pain Heaven Grows Sin Pleasure Watches Cry Sorrow Pure Devil Curse Heavenly

Author:David Berg

“Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.”

People Way Dream Pain Suffering Grows Pleasure Despair Work Out Grabbing Bad Dream

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.”

Ifs Life Is Grows Pleasure Destruction Misery Everyday Each Day Misfortunes Surroundings Equanimity

Author:Luther Burbank

“It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.”

Ifs Knows Book Grows Enjoy Pleasure Wonder Presidential

Book:Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

Source: Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

“Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.”

Men Grows Pleasure Praise Envy Pale Provoking Envious

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.”

Ifs Needs Humans Grows Causes Realizing Pleasure Brain Comfortable Shots Empty Fundamentals Terror Satisfaction Urges Housewife Full Potential Nameless Schizophrenic Clinicals

Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved in a prolonged capturing of emerging marginal meanings. He feels that he, too, is creative, that he himself is adding to his experience and understanding. Moreover, he wants to confront the work of art many times. He is not easily tired of it, as he would be had he read a purely logical statement. He realizes that the work of art does not merely transmit information; it produces pleasure.”

Source: Creativity: The Magic Synthesis

“So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.”

Grows Dark Sleep Pleasure Conscience Flow Tides Wickedness Awakened Sentinels

Book:The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Bealau Known by the Name of Lady Roxana

Source: The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Bealau Known by the Name of Lady Roxana

“And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.”

Looks Heart Grows Pleasure Laughing Gay

Book:Lillian: And Other Poems

Source: Lillian: And Other Poems

“Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.”

Way Mean Choices Grows Enjoy Pleasure Company Worst Profit Superiors Being The Best

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.”

Years Ends Grows Pleasure Stronger Vices Yield

Book:In Pursuit of Laughter ...

Source: In Pursuit of Laughter ...

“Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.”

“There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Reason Use Running Age Values Grows Pleasure Vanity Contemplation Dull No Reason Flats Lasting Afraid Of Death Insipid

Author:Gilbert Burnet

“Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.”

Source: The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism

“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.”

Culture Found Grows Chance Pleasure Growing Up Path Flower Seeds Unexpected Sparks Gladness

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler