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“Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”

Ifs Men Mind May Light Lying Imagination Pleasure Poor Numbers Opinion Taken Doubt Add Vain Melancholy Diamond Pearls Mixtures Flattering Valuation

Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

“If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.”

Ifs Father Pleasure Liberty Son Deny Arbitrary Practise

Book:The works of John Locke ...

Source: The works of John Locke ...

“Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.”

Ifs Ends Faces Pleasure Laughing Laughter Loud Tails Sigh

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“We deny ourselves the smallest comfort or pleasure; even if it only costs a few dollars. This is not prosperous spending. Prosperity says you can have red bell peppers instead of green, rib eyes instead of sirloin, and romaine instead of iceberg. It's not about spending everything you make, but enjoying what you do spend without felling guilty about it ... The positive feelings and emotions that prosperous spending brings is what attracts more positive things in your life.”

“The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!”

“If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.”

Ifs Men Running Pleasure Obvious Doing You

Author:Aristotle

“All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.”

Ifs Littles Pleasure Prepared Delicate Pigs Carts Pastries Congruence

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“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

“Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.”

Ifs Whole Perfect Pleasure Regard Fragments Greatest Pleasures Abhorrent

Author:Thomas Bernhard

“If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!”

Ifs Knows World Firsts Believe Persons Earth Universe Pleasure Grief This World Please Let Me Misery Almighty Woe Diseased Omniscient Nero

Author:Bhagat Singh

“We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.”

Ifs Knows Pleasure Views Millions Environment Havens Late Point Of View Discussion Executives Print Vans Jet Recycling

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“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

“If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.”

Ifs Want Stills Would Be Together Forget Pleasure Mines Summer Stronger Court Mortals Queens Heat Distraction Rejoice Forget Everything

Author:Melissa Marr

“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”

Ifs Pleasure Too Much Air Achievement Pollution Fresh Air Pleasures Of Life Air Pollution

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.”

Source: Letters to Persons in the World

“Not one man has ever sacrificed for his Lord without being richly repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures lost, it may seem hard and threatening. But when the cross is weighed in the balances with the glorious treasures to be had through it, even the cross seems sweet.”

Ifs Men May Hard Seems Lost Pleasure Lord Sweet Balance Crosses Treasure Glorious One Man Threatening

Author:Walter J Chantry

“And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.”

Ifs Mind Stills Book Pleasure Function Guilty Entertaining Good Book Enlightening Algebra Guilty Pleasure

Author:Pete Dexter

“Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?”

Ifs Want Humans Running Dies Human Beings Pleasure Dying Honor Always Running

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.”

Ifs Men Long Play Lasts Form Order Walks Pleasure Roles Color Concepts Relation Structure Convinced Meaningful Landscape Meaningless Subjective Arbitrary Totality Pedestrians Landscaping

Author:Max Horkheimer

“My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I do not work only in cases where there are no obstacles; but I glory in over-ruling the prevailing circumstances, and I take pleasure in bringing victories in those places where no victory is anywhere in sight.”

Ifs Done Pleasure Cases Victory Circumstances Glory Sight Obstacles Flaws Righteousness Ruling Prevailing

Book:Come Away My Beloved

Source: Come Away My Beloved

“Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.”

Ifs Knows Use Age Lasts Pleasure Know How And Love Old Age Cherish Reserved

Author:Seneca the Younger

“For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.”

Ifs Has Beens Moments Might Able Faces Pleasure Example Serious Proud Despair Grateful Intense Sensitive Peculiar Hopelessness Dwarfs Dwarves Predicaments

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.”

Ifs Thinking Want I Can Moments Hands Able Together Next Lost Enjoy Pleasure Eating Present Moment Dishes Incapable Flavor Texture Washing Dessert Live In The Present Forks Washing Dishes

Author:Nhat Hanh

“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

“If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.”

Ifs Made Song My Own Pleasure Records

Author:Bob Dylan

“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.”

“Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.”

Ifs States Pain Fall Pleasure Ease Rising Pain And Pleasure

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”

Ifs Remember Literature Pleasure Virtue Trouble Anticipation

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?”

Ifs Pleasure Practice Study Greatness Remains Sage Annoyed

Author:Confucius

“I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.”

People Ifs Seems Energy Pleasure Ill Clever Copies Originality Cloaks

Book:Armance

Source: Armance

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