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“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”

Ifs Hard Reading Opportunity Pleasure Attention Our Lives Land Quiet Conversation Intimate Restaurants Distraction Noisy Land Of Opportunity Pleasure Of Reading Intimate Conversation

Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.”

Pleasure Sea Land Wind Ocean Folks Ease

Author:Lucretius

“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.”

Men Law Desire Passion Women Pleasure Struggle Land Taste Overcoming Obstacles Flesh Hats Strings Conventions Tied Veils Breeze Softness Subjection

Book:Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”

Years Spirit Three Pleasure Race Four Blood Land Tears Hundred Riches Welcome Islands Paradise Splits Haiti

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.”

Should Wells War Action Moving Pleasure Land Paid Seeking Ease Feds One Woman Countrymen Pleasure Seeking

Author:Clara Barton

“Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?”

Ifs Hands Desire Pleasure Steps Land Trust Guides Surrender Commit Desert Hands Of God Promised Land Blessedness

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing the "absurdity ball" around and the "irreverence ball" around, and keep people guessing and keep people confused, there's great safety in that. Me, myself, personally, I learn from it. It's a real pleasure, and I do need him.”

People Needs Real Character Pleasure Land Mines Balls Safety Passing Passings Confused Captains Absurdity Guessing Irreverence Captain Jack Great Safety

Author:Johnny Depp

“'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'”

World Pleasure Alive Land

Book:The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

Source: The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems