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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.”

Source: Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus

“The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.”

Source: Sketches by Boz: Pseud. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People

“If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.”

Ifs Looks May Night Pleasure Morning Position Taught Shapes Authority Despite Saturday Monday Taught Us Saturday Night Monday Morning Purposelessness Hedonist

Author:Clive Barker

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.”

World Light Earth Spirit Simple Forget Pleasure Morning Blood Rocks Demand Spring Ancient Delight Deny Graves Noise Evening Traffic Fog Flowering Morning Light

Author:Stephen Spender

“The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.”

Years Realizing Pleasure Morning Five Sadness Youth Wake Up Speed Passing Passings Five Years

Author:Derek Tangye

“Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.”

Night Pleasure Morning Feet Longing Rose Satisfied Granted Sensual Radiant Jasmine Sensual Pleasure

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.”

Life Is Night Simple Pleasure Morning Genuine Cute Sarcasm Sarcastic Hurrying

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.”

Pleasure Morning Drinking Rising

Author:Francois Rabelais

“I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.”

Thinking Want Ideas Joy Found Pleasure Morning Ought Bed Ease Fulfilling Good Education Pleasures Of Life Work You Love

Author:David McCullough