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“By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.”

Source: The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes

“Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.”

Ifs Women Pleasure Sun Flower Duty Development Calling Female Rose Enjoyed Charm Retirement Shade Sensibility Showers Fragrance Domestic Life

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“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

“The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand, Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales, Pipes softest music through the vales, And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd, With velvet carpet spread the ground; With livelier blush where roses bloom, And every shrub expires perfume.”

Hands Pleasure Virtue Youth Band Spring Flow Rose Spread Virtuous Crowns Perfume Carpet Pipe Harmonious Hand In Hand Vigor Mansions Velvet Gale Flora Shrubs Zephyr

Book:The Ghost

Source: The Ghost

“Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.”

World Felt Pleasure Brain Drug Rose Edges Warm Appeals Gentle Necks Entering Veins Consumed Explosions Lofty Heroin

Author:Gus Van Sant

“No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.”

People May Doe Pain Hurt Pleasure Cities Ready Balance Rose Paris Justification Crowns Martyr Thorns Immorality Frivolity Fierceness Crown Of Thorns Irreligion

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.”

Law Pleasure Existence My Friends Rose Enjoyment Immortal

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts