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“In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.”

Should Fun Nations Sports Pleasure Views Share Should Have Budgets Productive Recreation Productive Work

Author:Walt Disney

“But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexations, whether their kings are mild or cruel, whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them.”

Country Age Evil Felt Pleasure Enemy Share Youth Kings Ten Universal Army Pursue Distress Evident Retreat

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.”

Heart Seems Pain Humanity Pleasure Cities Share Gains Strive Busy Great Hearts

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.”

Age Pain Pleasure Share Youth Produce Cups Ingredients Appetite Manhood Parts Of Life Eagerness Imbecility

Book:A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

Source: A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

“abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.”

Way Light Pleasure Share Habit Comfort Travel Regard Chosen Landscape Features Realms Sensibility Unnecessary Traveler Jars Grievance Intruders

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.”

Sometimes Would Be Pain Pleasure Grief Share Conversation Silent Satisfaction Sympathy Participation Woe Diminish

Author:William Wycherley

“I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.”

Matter Pain Answers Pleasure Half Share Taste Stranger Hungry Gates Intensity Aggression Hunts Palaces Peasants Foraging Half Measures

Book:Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography

Source: Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography

“Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.”

Helping Suffering Pleasure Share Bears Rewards Beggar Without Hope

Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna

“Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.”

Ifs Love Justice Love Is Pleasure Marriage Fire Alive Share Smart Difficulty Senses Cease Honour Grounded Usefulness Stale Constancy Pleasure Love

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Children Remember Wealth Pleasure Rich Share Highest Pockets Rich Man Shrouds

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.”

Pain Pleasure Share Drains

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved inwhat to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”

“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.”

Children Play Night Father Fun Pleasure Share Laughter Delight Christmas Children Christmas Father Christmas

Book:The Second World War: The Grand Alliance

Source: The Second World War: The Grand Alliance

“Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.”

Source: The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism