Best pleasure & praise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Heaven is simply going to be an intensification, amplification, magnification and extension of all the thrills and joys and pleasures of this life, the Heaven on Earth that we're now enjoying, only it will be even more Heavenly there, and forever, praise God!”

Earth Joy Heaven Enjoy Pleasure Forever Praise This Life Heavenly Extensions Heaven On Earth Praise God Amplification Magnification

Author:David Berg

“It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.”

Way Giving Real Speak Nature Pleasure Lovers Summer Glory Praise Winter Real Love

Book:The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

Source: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

“There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.”

Believe I Believe Pleasure Possibility Praise Desirable Flattery

Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

“Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.”

Men Grows Pleasure Praise Envy Pale Provoking Envious

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]”

Pleasure Sky Praise Abandoned Ads Reign

Author:Horace

“For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.”

Soul Pleasure Weak Praise Breasts Internals Flattery

Book:Essays, poems and plays

Source: Essays, poems and plays

“Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.”

Source: The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study

“Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.”

Giving Pleasure Quality Opinion Praise Concur

Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.”

Should Care Pleasure Moral Draws Praise Rewards Burden Release Indifferent Censure

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.”

Men Pleasure Praise Hearing Spite Modesty

Book:Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

“It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.”

Men Natural Pleasure Abuse Praise Disposition Neighbour Impatience Slander

Author:Demosthenes

“There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy”

Pleasure Praise Receiving Praiseworthy

Book:The Tatler

Source: The Tatler

“In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).”

Pleasure Praise Completion Praise God

Author:John Piper

“We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.”

Trying Names Pleasure Objects Praise Hypocrite

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

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