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“The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.”

Running Pain Enjoy Pleasure Delight Cups Mortals Immortality Rapture Fables Pain And Pleasure Voluptuous

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.”

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.”

Feels Firsts Heart Children Able Parent Pleasure Learning Seeing Objects Mortals Enjoyed Thrilling

Author:Sarah Josepha Hale

“To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.”

Giving Mind Heaven Wish Hours Wealth Love Is Pleasure Views Virtue Fairs Gold Cease Mortals Remove Trash

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.”

Ends Turns Pleasure Shame Lust Mortals Miserable Repentance Palate

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?”

World Made Stills Values Decision Pleasure Fool Cost Judgment Deeds Mortals Delusion Decisions Made

Author:Steven Erikson

“Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.”

“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”

Knows Earth Courses Stars Born Pleasure Feet Astronomy Mortals Multitudes Space Exploration Stars In The Sky

Author:Ptolemy

“But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.”

Love Giving Pleasure Madness Wine Mortals Bliss Bowls

Book:The Works of Edward Young ...: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Edward Young ...: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

“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

“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.”

Should Art Pleasure Raises Glasses Mortals Piety Elbows Salute Martini

Author:Bob Shacochis