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“Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.”

May Desire Order Pleasure Grace Please Sick Pity Ease Sickness Vigor Delicacy Infirmity Gracefulness

Book:Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education

Source: Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education

“If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.”

Ifs Men Might Earth Pain Purpose Enjoy Pleasure Bed Reflection Devil Angel Charity Endure Ill Possession Envy Pity Possessed Distress Doing Good Death Bed

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.”

Mind May Made Friendship Pleasure Sorrow Pity Esteem Contempt

Book:The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays

Source: The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays

“If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.”

Ifs Trying Self Pleasure Pity If I Could Self Pity

Author:Mason Cooley