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“I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.”

Beautiful Pleasure Beauty Seasons Solomon

Book:The Complete Angler

Source: The Complete Angler

“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.”

Mind States Age Differences Pleasure Quality Conditions Music Is Seasons Sacred Distinction Productive Temper Secular Anguish

Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion

Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion

“To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.”

Humans Long Body Desire Passion Memories Pleasure Seasons Human Body

Book:Islands, the universe, home

Source: Islands, the universe, home

“I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.”

Ifs Firsts Made Eye My Own Pleasure Virtue Wife Seasons Property Vanity Sexism Submit Divorced

Book:The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

“Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.”

Mean Doe Enjoy Pleasure Perfection Seasons Contrary Venture

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.”

Source: Evans's Pedestrious Tour

“Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.”

May Pleasure Spring Seasons Autumn Prime Boast Treasury Vineyards Rubies Spring May

Author:Thomas Moore